Word: gers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World War I put an end to Kupka's optimistic colors. He fought in the French army, later returned to help establish independent Czechoslovakia. After the war, like Léger and the Dadaists, he painted imaginary machines in a commentary on dehumanized mankind. He did a series called Hot Jazz, trying to make his lyrical art more bouncy than Bach, but the verve of his youth seemed gone...
Trapped by the last bizarre stunt in his succession of bragging phone calls and letters to the police and press, Le´ger sat chatting with detectives at police headquarters as a squad from the Suûr-eteÚ's First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little...
...shiny black Checker limousine skimmed along Vientiane's pitted streets like a water beetle supported by surface tension. There was plenty of tension in the Laotian capital, but the burly, brush-browed man in the car did not show it. U.S. Ambassador Leonard Un ger was at his unflappable best as he coordinated the search for two downed American aviators and pressed the case for fighter escort to accompany continuing U.S. reconnaissance flights over the Plain of Jars. The ambassador stopped by a cocktail party to talk with a rightist leader, then dropped in on Premier Souvanna Phouma...
...sent to Parliament a bill that would slap a 25% tax on the yield of German bonds held by foreigners. The tax, which will, in effect, lower the cur rent 6% yield on German securities to an unglamorous 4.5% , was greeted with dismay by foreign bondholders and Ger man bond brokers. Erhard also an nounced a second bill that will please businessmen more; by abolishing the much disliked 2.5% tax on the issue of stocks and bonds floated in Germany, it aims to encourage foreign companies to raise funds in Germany, thus stepping up the export of German capital...
Down on the Farm. The man who will have to lead Germany into the "new phase" of Western policy has three outstanding characteristics: he is well aware of Europe's great and tragic past, he is strongly committed to Ger-man-U.S. friendship, and he has unshakable faith in the destiny of free men and a free economy...