Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant note everywhere is concern, not panic. Economies are generally sound, employment high and currency strong. To Dr. Erhard, the engineer of the German production miracle, a slowdown is not without advantages for his highly flexible economy, for rising costs were beginning to threaten Germany's competitive position. And one Italian economist dismisses his own country's recession as no more than "a slowdown in the speedup...
Listen, the Wind. Simply by appearing in person at the East German Party Congress, Khrushchev demonstrated his support for East Germany's Stalinist chief, goateed Walter Ulbricht. "The wind isn't blowing into your face but Adenauer's." he told party activists. "Don't worry, they'll come yet and knock on your door and say, we're from Bonn and would like to negotiate." He drove into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave...
Promising to press his campaign against Yugoslav heresy to a victorious end, Khrushchev congratulated the East German party on its "pitiless struggle for purity against revisionism and opportunism," and won his loudest cheer of the day with a final promise: starting Jan. 1, 1959, East Germany will no longer have to pay $144 million annual support contributions to the Soviet forces...
Illinois Institute of Technology's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, architect of stark, skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech...
...quickly evident that Kemper had no idea the Communists were using the Americans as hostages to pressure the State Department into recognition of the East German government. When Topping asked permission to present the facts of the case to Kemper so he could answer questions intelligently, he was cut off with: "No statements." But a Communist official promptly made a statement of his own: "The German Democratic Republic is making no political conditions for your release. It is the American side that is making the conditions...