Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accompanying your story on D-day in Europe is a wonderful piece of military reference material; I've filed mine away where I can always get at it. However, it seems to be drawn from the point of view of the German commander because, as any armchair strategist knows, the enemy is shown in red and friendly forces in blue. JOSEPH M. MASSARO Lieutenant, U.S.A. Fort Knox...
...Western powers offered far-reaching proposals on German reunification and European security, and put forward reasonable offers to reach an interim agreement on West Berlin. The Soviet Union, however, revealed clearly that its true desire is to absorb West Berlin into East Germany and to keep Germany divided until it can be brought under Soviet influence...
...striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant...
Only two women had emerged with any clarity from Adolf Hitler's shadowy private life: his youthful niece, Geli Raubal, and Eva Braun. Both died violent deaths. When last March Hitler's sister, Paula Wolf, casually mentioned to a German reporter that she had recently visited with "perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret...
...ground them as thoroughly in the liberal arts as in the arts of technology. For such achievements, Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French and German history in the original-Stratton is humanist as well as scientist. Under President (1930-48) Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T. toward real scientific eminence, Stratton taught electrical engineering and physics, won wide respect for his wartime radar research and later for his administrative abilities in organizing the institute...