Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...
Once his steps ranged beyond his favored places-Sussex, France, Rome-Belloc's zeal turned to disgust. He described Germany as "an odd filter through which civilization gets to the Slavs." He despised the Tyrol ("detestable"), the Kremlin ("quite insignificant"). Angry, this mind spewed along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...
...greatest Bear advantages is their size. The fifteen-man team will include ten varsity football players, including starters Max Hale, who converts 50-yard place kicks, Norm Becker, the country's leading pass receiver until he broke his shoulder, Mike White, first four-letter man in Cal's history, and Frank Mattaroci, the center. The average weight of the scrum is about 200 pounds...
...Ingres and Van Gogh drawing, a Cézanne oil and a few other late igth century works, the collection consists entirely of contemporary art, ranging from Afro to Vuillard, and including Picasso, Rouault. Matisse, Klee, Braque, MirÓ, Villon, Bonnard, Tamayo. Elvira and another early buy, Max Beckmann's Zeretelli (opposite), are typical of the individual pictorial styles and expressiveness that caught Pulitzer's eye. One of the best painters to come out of Germany in this century, Beckmann did this perceptive portrait of the ballet dancer-prince in 1927 as part of his constant effort...
...first quarter of 1957 than in all of 1956. Chief reason for Chrysler's comeback: the styling, epitomized by flashy tail fins, which makes its 1957 line the most rakish on the road. At Chrysler nowadays, nothing is too good for the man responsible: handsome, silver-haired Virgil Max Exner, 47, the company's ace designer since...