Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometime journalist and poet and now aide to Socialist Mayor Brauer of Hamburg, has waged a one-man campaign to remind Germans of the enormity of the Nazi crimes against Jews, helped campaign for a restitution payment ($822 million, most of it to be paid to the Israel government), persuaded thousands of Germans to sign declarations acknowledging the onus of national guilt, and launched a campaign among schoolchildren to plant 10,000 olive trees in Israel...
...when the news got out, there were mutterings from unforgiving Jewish extremists, so the Israeli government told Lüth to come incognito, if at all. and fibbed to the press that his trip had been canceled. Not until his trip was over and he was back home in Hamburg last week did the story of the "traveler to Cyprus" come out. "Israel has been defiled," cried the jingoist daily Herut, but other Israelis found the situation wryly humorous. "When the Germans have to travel incognito among Jews," said one, "then the wheel has really turned...
...Mike. Hit of last week's industrial fair at Hannover, Germany, was a three-dimensional projection microscope designed by Dr. Friedrich Fehse of Hamburg. It projected repulsive little creatures (protozoa, bacilli, etc.) on a three-foot screen and enlarged them to the size of rabbits. Observers wearing polarized glasses got the shock of their lives. The blown-up varmints appeared to be swimming toward them, even reaching for them...
Schine, another McCarthy aide, and they had come to investigate the U.S. Information Service in Europe. Hamburg's Die Welt promptly dubbed them Schnuffler (snoopers), a name that dogged them through Europe. But in USIS centers from Berlin to Belgrade, all work ceased when they appeared...
Adenauer left Boston yesterday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. for a one-day visit to Ottawa. He will leave the Canadian city today to return to Hamburg...