Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many an archaeologist has eyed a handsome modern structure and secretly thought of what treasures he might find beneath it, if only somebody would blow it up. The German blitz on London in World War II provided just such an archaeologist's windfall, exposing ancient ruins sealed fof centuries by the close-built modern city. Last week Director William Grimes of the London Museum described the discovery of two blockhouses which the Romans built either to protect Londinium, or to protect themselves from Londinium's people...
Lowest of the Low. Niarchos has a rare faculty for expanding his fleet "when shipyards are hungry." In 1949, when British yards were hungry ($120 a ton), he ordered ten tankers; when British berths filled up, Niarchos fed the German, Dutch and Swedish yards, later moved on to hungry Japan. He drives a hard bargain. Says Netherlands Dock and Shipbuilding Co.'s Pieter Goedkoop, who has built two tankers for Niarchos: "He dictated the price. It wasn't unreasonably low. It was the lowest of the low that he could reasonably ask." But after signing a construction contract...
While prewar Greek ships were sorrylooking rustbuckets, Niarchos has turned out some of the handsomest merchantmen afloat. To get top seamen, Niarchos pays his Italian, Greek, German and British crews more than they would earn under their own national flags (but less than one-third of the U.S. scale), equips his new tankers with air conditioning, lavish private quarters for all hands, tiled showers, TV, elevators, recreation rooms...
...than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled his own unpopular conscription bill through the German Parliament, and he let it be known at week's end that he was "extremely concerned...
...famed University of Pittsburgh laboratories where the Salk polio vaccine was invented, Dr. Gisela Ruckle, a German émigrée, reported that she had grown 25 generations of the measles virus in test tubes. The virus had hitherto defied domestication; now researchers may be able to make an effective measles vaccine...