Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shop on High Street, made last year by Czechoslovakian Co-Directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, took festivalgoers in New York back to the year 1942, when the Jews of a little Slovakian town incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher of Auschwitz" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1964), to West Germany's maximum penalty: life imprisonment. To eleven more defendants went sentences ranging from 39 months to 14 years for complicity in the mass murders. Only three of the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence...
...begin receiving the 7% higher social security benefits recently voted by Congress. The average monthly hikes seem modest-$5 for individual recipients, $8 for couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security...
...construction. It also gives Congress a stronger hand in blocking shutdowns of military installations by refusing to allow the Secretary of Defense to close any base until 120 days after he has announced his plans to House and Senate Armed Services committees. He must submit his shutdown reports between Jan. 1 and April 30 so the committees can write restrictive language into the annual military construction bills if they disapprove...