Word: karle
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...DIED. Karl Wolff, 84, storm-trooper general and Nazi military governor of Italy who negotiated the surrender of 1 million German and Italian troops to the Allies on May 2, 1945, six days before the Third Reich collapsed; after a long illness; in Rosenheim, Germany. Although he was chief adjutant to SS Commander Heinrich Himmler, Wolff after the war denied knowledge of Hitler's final solution and was not tried as a war criminal. In 1964, however, he became the highest-ranking Nazi officer to be tried in a West German court; he was sentenced to 15 years...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...
...closer to home, the lack of adequate facilities in the U.S. means that most of Harvard's star high energy physicists, such as Carlo Rubbia and Karl Strauch, have been forced to take months, even years, off to live and work abroad to continue their research. The commutee they say, slows their work and hinders their teaching...
...Scottish streams, but the Queen Mother, 83, can handle a cue when the occasion calls for it. While on a three-day tour of the Channel Islands, she popped into a young people's center in Jersey. There she was cheekily challenged to a game of pool by Karl Megaw, 17. The regal reply: "Certainly." As she lined up the shot, she murmured, "Wouldn't it be awful if I missed?," then proceeded to render the question academic as she slammed the ball into the side pocket. "I offered her a shot because I heard she played," said...
...think I now can explain what, at the time, was a real mystery: why was Karl Marx not taught at Harvard? At the time I suspected that Capital contained a shameful truth, and that Harvard professors refused to teach it because they recognized that. How much, I now realize, I overrated them. Of course they had not read Capital either. The shameful truth was that they could not. And that is why Capital was not taught at Harvard...