Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swiss friend: "She seemed relieved that it was all over. She was a kind girl, with a vivid interest in people and things. All she needed was a man who could really lead her." But Joanne had only Mother, and the lonely isolation (Joanne spoke no French or German) of her Swiss villa had only intensified her unhappiness. Over the months her drug intake increased alarmingly-sleeping pills to stop her "headaches," Dexedrine to wake her up, reducing pills to curb her appetite...
...Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup. But some among them did so with an uncontrollable nervous quaver. In East Germany a spokesman for heavy-handed Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht edgily scoffed at journalistic speculation that the changes in Moscow might inspire "similar revisions" in East German leadership. In Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads to socialism" now seemed to bear the approving...
...principle of free competition, firmly defined in the U.S.'s Sherman Act and subsequent antitrust legislation. Since 1950, the roly-poly Economics Minister has been struggling to persuade West Germany's Bundestag to pass its own anti-cartel law. At times, Erhard's fight-which Germans jestingly called "the Seven Years' War"-seemed hopeless. No European nation had ever adopted a law comparable to the Sherman Act, and none appeared less likely to do so than Germany, fatherland of the classic cartel. (In the mid-1930s, experts estimated that nearly 2,000 cartel agreements were...
Harvard University's birdlike Frederick Merk, 69, grand chronicler of the American frontier. The grandson of an immigrant German cooper, Merk graduated from the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
...build a million-dollar U.S. embassy in Athens just one mile from the Parthenon, 2) make it a showcase of U.S. modern architecture, but let it be classical enough to fit its surroundings, 3) give it a warm, friendly, inviting atmosphere expressing U.S. democracy. For the assignment, State picked German-born Walter Gropius, 74, founder and onetime (1919-28) director of the Bauhaus, later chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, and founder of his own cooperative architectural firm in Cambridge, Mass., The Architects' Collaborative (T.A.C...