Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close as 20 miles beyond that, as Sergeant Nolen knew, lay outposts...
...years since West Point getting jobs done and going away before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years ago. Yet his name was always widely met with a standard response...
Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
...session with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the West will operate from a 20-page "Phased Plan," the result of considering hundreds of position papers. In some respects it goes farther than what the West put forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...
...German Electoral Committee" would be nominated by the West and East German governments in a proportion, based on population, of 25 West Germans to ten East Germans. The committee would arrange increasing commercial exchanges-more trains, buses, mail, books, newspapers-culminating in adoption of a common currency. After a period of "at least three years," during which progress could be measured and trust justified, the committee would prepare legislation for free, all-German elections...