Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snowboard's Saga. That map-or drawings purporting to be the map-has been appearing, disappearing and reappearing ever since. In the 1870s a German prospector, Jacob ("Dutchman") Waltz, called "Snowbeard" by the Indians, killed at least five men in getting his hands on the map. For years afterward, Waltz lived with a quadroon girl in an adobe hut in Phoenix, periodically slipped into the crags of Superstition Mountain to replenish his supply of nuggets...
...more year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added that unless the West accepted these conditions, "the Soviet Union will not be willing to ... consent to continuation of the occupation regime in Berlin...
...opposition Socialists tried to keep the fight alive. "The German people are no longer willing to watch us go back to the darkness of the rule of one man," said pudgy Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer. Erhard sat silent and unsmiling on the government bench while Adenauer taunted the Socialist: "Herr Ollenhauer is always saying I am inflexible, and now he is accusing me of changing my mind." Unmoved by all the criticism, Adenauer wound up: "What I have done, I have done for the good of the German people...
...president for the coming year, the delegates elected Dr. Herbert Gezork, 58, onetime leader of the German Baptist Youth Movement who fled Germany in 1936 just before the Nazis closed in on him, is now president of Baptist-run Andover Newton Theological School. Delegates went on record against...
...technological age, ancient crafts have managed not only to survive, but actually flourish. A prime example is France's centuries-old weaving industry, which was revitalized by a handful of dedicated artists headed by Jean Lurcat and Marcel Gromaire during the grim days of the World War II German occupation. Working in Aubusson close to the looms, and designing sketches in some 50 colors (v. 1,440 tones used by 19th century weavers), modern French tapestry designers have made the old craft into a contemporary medium...