Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy chief of East Germany's military espionage organization, innocently called "Administration for Coordination." Dombrowski, 42, told newsmen he had defected "several months ago," and brought with him long lists of agents and dispatches that he had turned over to the "proper Western authorities." The total East German apparatus, he declared, involved control of 60,000 agents, with 13,000 of his own agents working undercover in Britain, France, Spain, Italy, West Germany, and in the U.S. installations in Europe...
...dozens of spy organizations. East and West, continue trading lefts and rights in Berlin, the climate around them is changing. While applauding the Western underground's previous services against the Reds-which include everything from smuggling out scientists to sending anonymous warnings to East German authorities that their misdeeds are being recorded -Berlin officials and newspapers have begun to suggest that some of the spook groups are overdoing...
Time Barrier. The money he got from his West German-made movie, The Eighth Day of the Week, and from the sale of his books spilled from his pockets in expensive living and in generous loans. He had an affair of the heart with pretty Actress Sonja Ziemann, who had starred in his picture. But he said: "At first one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost." How long, someone asked, does it take to pass the time barrier? Hlasko answered cynically: "Five minutes...
...friends thought he would be safer in Munich than in Berlin. He enrolled for German and English lessons at the Munich Berlitz school (he speaks no English, and has barely one sentence of German, learned by rote: "The censor understands nothing of love."). A U.S. foundation arranged an American visit for him; the International Rescue Committee helped him get a visitor's visa. His movie was about to open in New York...
...Thiokol Chemical Corp. explained some of the tricks that are used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...