Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked to paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished him to a dusty office...
Herter will begin formal talks with his French, British and West German counterparts tomorrow in the French Foreign Ministry. Diplomatic sources said the talks, scheduled to last three days, will be under three general headings: Berlin, German reunification, European security...
These and other books on Plato, Aristotle, neo-Platonism, Demosthenes, the early Greek philosophers, Greek medicine, the early Christian writers, and the essence of humanism have appeared in Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Polish, as well as English editions...
...portable typewriter and a pile of stationery. Working out of his tiny Munich hotel room, he has searched for sponsors, raised funds, got publicity, gathered statistics and lists. Last Christmas the Bavarian radio helped Hoosman put on a party for 40 Munich Negerkinder. He got headlines in the West German press by smuggling out of East Germany a little Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich children. Last week Munich's Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer promised Hoosman official...
...Much Glass. As building after building in the exhibition shows, the major debt of the U.S.'s younger architects is owed to Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. His bronze-sheathed Seagram Building, shown glowing against Manhattan's skyline, is a masterful exposition of how the steel cage can, by the very economy of its means and richness of its texture, become a masterpiece. But in the most advanced projects, it is equally clear that few architects now consider themselves blind Mies followers...