Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decided that though "art would follow inevitably, I had first of all to become a man." His father, who was a music professor, indulged him with a tolerance far in advance of the times. In the next four years, his family picked up the tab for drawing classes in Munich, "May wine orgies" with the models, a tour of Italy, and conscience payments to a pregnant mistress...
Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich...
...found a kindred spirit in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, another businessman-turned-politician, and he eagerly seconded Chamberlain's appeasement policies. Believing that all the world's ills could be solved by clever horse trades, Kennedy urged making a deal with Hitler, and he applauded the Munich capitulation. Determined to intervene on the side of Britain, Roosevelt eventually gave up on his pessimistic ambassador, who was so convinced of Nazi victory that he even objected to Americans' enlisting in the British armed forces-on the grounds that Hitler might retaliate by shooting all U.S. citizens when...
...Bloch's work on the synthesis of cholesterol in the living cell has taken almost 25 years and has occupied virtually all of his professional attention. Working independently, he and Feodor Lynen, the co-winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess cholesterol causes heart disease. While this theory has not been confirmed, the Nobel Committee observed in its citation...
...least by omission-of not staying the Nazi slaughter of the German Jews, Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, in The Deputy, racked the stages of Europe and Broadway with controversy. Now another play, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by another German playwright, Heinar Kipphardt, now playing in Berlin and Munich, has become the talk of Europe. One key difference: Pius was dead and unable to refute the charges; J. Robert Oppenheimer, current Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, is very much alive, and furious...