Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Sargent, in his concession speech, attributed his defeat to "the price of hamburg," and "a national tide which was running against virtually every Republican...
...marched up to Brandt's house on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...
Shortly after the Social Democratic Party suffered a serious setback in a Hamburg state by-election last March, Helmut Schmidt, 55, went on television and bluntly accused his boss, Willy Brandt, of weak leadership and laxity. That kind of pugnacity long ago earned West Germany's new Chancellor-nominate the nickname "Schmidt-Schnauze" (Schmidt the Lip). Friends and enemies alike describe him as an "American-style" politician, in reference to his rough-and-tumble skill as an infighter. Certainly no one has ever accused him of indecision or timidity- or of hiding his ambition to take over Brandt...
...Hamburg schoolteacher, Schmidt joined the Hitler Youth when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and later served as an artillery battery commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II until he was captured by the British. After the war, he studied economics at the University of Hamurg, where he was a star pupil of Karl Schiller, who later served as Brandt's first Finance Minister. Schmidt entered politics while still a student and became leader of the German Socialist Student Union, precursor of today's vociferous, left-wing Young Socialists (Jusos). He won a seat...
...basically simple," says Reiche, who was trained in mathematics at Hamburg University. First, she explains, the artists apparently worked out their designs in advance on small 6-ft. by 6-ft. plots still visible near many of the larger figures. On these dirt sketch pads, she says, they could break down each drawing into its component parts. Straight lines could be drawn by stretching a rope between two stakes. Curves represented more of a challenge. The ancient draftsmen apparently dealt with it by breaking each curve into smaller, linked arcs. Recognizing that the arcs represented sections of the circumferences...