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Students often dream of turning their thesis into a popular book. Researched with the help of the U.S. ambassador to Britain (who just happened to be his father), John F. Kennedy '40 wrote his thesis on "Appeasement at Munich (The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy)." After graduating, the future president did some additional editing and then published the book which first brought him notice: While Britain Slept...
...murders of well-known European military and industrial leaders by indigenous terrorist organizations. In January 1985 Action Directe claimed responsibility for the death of General Rene Audran, a prominent French Ministry of Defense official. Days later, members of the West German Red Army Faction murdered Ernst Zimmermann, a Munich defense industrialist. Some experts believe the atrocities are linked, and point to a communique the two groups issued last year declaring they would form a "West European guerrilla movement." Last week French authorities were investigating a possible West German connection to the Besse slaying...
...THUNDEROUS world applause Neville Chamberlain walked away from a summit conference in Munich with Adolph Hitler, having reached a non-aggression pact with the threatening Nazi power. He was hailed in Britain and across Europe as a diplomat of unsurpassed greatness, one who could bargain with and control even the world's greatest menace without risking the atrocities of the first world...
According to Alcorn, the Oktoberfest, which parallels the 75-year-old Munich celebration and is sponsored by the Business Association, has been expanding ever since its inception by the Wursthaus restaurant eight years ago. But while the Munich Oktoberfest originated as a celebration of Prince Ludwig's wedding and of drinking special Oktoberfest beer, the Harvard Square Oktoberfest started, according to owner of Wursthaus, Frank Cardullo, as an attempt to attract more business to the Square after the rebuilding of the MBTA Red Line...
...served as Director of a Max Planck Institut in Starnberg and Munich and has held a host of teaching positions at institutions such as the New School of Social Research, theUniversity of Heidelberg, Wesleyan University, theUniversity of Pennsylvania, the University ofCalifornia and the College de France...