Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly four hours after Pilot Sommers took off, he came in, expertly putting down most of the plane's weight on its good right gear. As the 707 eased over on the left, scraping the damaged strut on the concrete runway, huge sheets of sparks flashed into the air, until at last the plane rolled safely to a stop, a good 200 feet short of the foam carpet. At least 1,000 spectators and airport employees surged forward, despite the obvious hazard of leaking fuel and fire. A baby in the crowd whimpered; her mother snapped: "Shut...
...been increasingly conservative. Bitter over being out of power, the Socialist parties, too doctrinally dogmatic to fit in with the current prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer cold-war policy to win votes. They cry for banning the H-bomb, for disarmament, for disengagement, for deals with Russia...
...Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal...
...seven-man commission appointed to find a candidate and a program to lead the Social Democrats to victory in 1961, party moderates won all the places. Conspicuously left off was Deputy Party Chairman Herbert Wehner, a onetime Communist agitator who was the man most responsible for Ollenhauer's luckless flirtation with Khrushchev. The likeliest candidate to lead the party is Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 62. Convivial, mellow-voiced Carlo Schmid is by all odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler...
...chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that nurtured Western man. He left Hitler's Germany in the '30s, taught at the Universities of California and Chicago before going in 1939 to Harvard, where the Institute of Classical Studies was set up especially for him. Fondly called "Zeus" by colleagues, Jaeger was one of Harvard's least pretentious teachers, delivered...