Word: lithuanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first target was Franz Murer, "the Butcher of Wilno," under whose aegis the Jewish population of the Lithuanian town was reduced from 80,000 to 250. Wiesenthal found him quite by accident in 1947; the ex-SS commissar was living on his prewar farm near Linz. Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery. "The post commander was an old man with a drooping white mustache, probably a relic from the good old Habsburg days. We asked about the big farm on the hill. 'Belongs to Murer...
...uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated with a B average in history. He earned pocket money by working as a parking-lot attendant and tour guide at the Miller High Life brewery. At school...
...convince the judges that Ingrid, a Miss Germany from Niirnberg, should be crowned Miss International Beauty at Long Beach, Calif. As usual, all the other girls in the contest beamed pluckily through their disappointment, but back in Manhattan there was one who didn't: Regina Ruta, the Lithuanian-born blonde who was chosen Miss New York City last month and then disqualified because her U.S. citizenship had not yet come through. She announced that she is giving up beauty contests forever to become a veterinarian...
Best of show in Rome went to the collection of Princess Irene Galitzine, who is married to a Medici and descended from a 13th century Lithuanian king. Galitzine had a thing about spirals. Everything from bikinis to ball gowns swirled their way up and down the figure. The bias that really biased the crowd was a black, silk, matelasse evening dress-the high halter neck in front dropped to a dangerous curve at a point slightly northwest of the coccyx. Lest any man not notice-which seems hardly likely-there is a big shiny bauble planted at the perigee...
Harvard's last win at Henley came in 1959. Last year, while the Crimson eight was making its unsuccessful bid for a trip to the Tokyo Olympics, a Russian-Lithuanian crew won at Henley in record-shattering time...