Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy has been on hand wherever and whenever the flames of world controversy burned hottest: in Munich during Hitler's brawling beer-hall days, in North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
...year has never ended. In 1921-25 he was in Munich, where he made the sort of mistake that is part of the training of a professional. The U.S. was interested in the doings of rising young Rabble Rouser Adolf Hitler. Murphy reported that Hitler was simply too loony to be dangerous. Among the diplomatic observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope...
Residenztheater," said Rococo Theater Expert Dr. Giinther Schone, director of Munich's Theater Museum. "I am afraid that the new gold leaf will shine too brightly and the walls will lack dust, the patina of age." But after two years of detailed restoration, the interior of Munich's rococo Residenztheater last week looked very much like the original-right down to the patina...
...this summer, with the performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the Residenztheater was born anew, and with it, Munich launched a summerlong celebration of its Sooth anniversary. Last week, the Bavarian State Opera performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio as part of Munich's opera festival. Said Residenztheater Restorer Sepp Huf: "We wanted to re-create the warm, glowing, golden tones of the 18th century as a present to the people of Munich on the occasion of their town's Sooth birthday. I think they will appreciate...
...Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...