Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sets. On the final production, the four Cabinet members (whom Ike addressed variously as "Herb," "George," "Mr. Benson" and "Miz Hobby") commented conversationally on their hopes for congressional action. The President spoke briefly and reassuringly on the U.S. course in world affairs: "There is going to be no new Munich, and ... there is going to be no risk of a general...
...Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes in 22 seconds. After placing second in the Mille Miglia, the Daimler-Benz champions grabbed top honors at Bern's Grand Prix, at France's Le Mans, the most grueling...
Died. Otto Lebrecht Meissner, 73 ("Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse"), enigmatic Man Friday to three successive heads of the German state after World War I; in Munich. Meissner got an Iron Cross in World War I, in 1923 became Socialist President Ebert's trusted State Secretary, was kept as confidant by Hindenburg, and a behind-the-scenes negotiator between Hindenburg and the up & coming Nazis. He turned up after Hitler's 1933 rise to power as a gaudily uniformed Minister of State for the new Führer. Tried and acquitted as a war criminal after World...
...blood. Werner lost no time putting the new constitution into effect: he promptly killed the boy who had tattled. Thus cleansed, the gang went into action. They held up a cigar store, tried to kill a bank messenger (whose briefcase proved to be empty) and stuck up a small Munich hotel. Their take was next to nothing...
Amid the ruins of postwar Munich, thousands of homeless and hungry kids like the Panthers hung around U.S. Army camps, begging food and money, stealing when they could not beg. The Panthers were more resourceful than most. In the summer of 1946, the Panthers dug up a formidable arsenal of pistols, carbines and even one light machine gun abandoned by the Wehrmacht near Munich...