Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright, his academic record was generally mediocre, and he made little impression on Faculty members. Yet despite the over-all mediocrity of his record, Kennedy did well enough senior year to graduate cum laude--better than 70 per cent of his classmates. And his thesis on appeasement at Munich earned a magna and became a best-seller...
Kennedy was granted permission to spend the spring semester of 1939 in Europe. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was then ambassador to England. The young Kennedy's tour of the European capitals led to his total improvement the following year in his senior thesis. "Appeasement at Munich." The thesis received a magna, and was subsequently published as the book, Why England slept, selling 40,000 copies...
German Chemists Peter Karlson and Adolf Butenandt of the University of Munich collected three tons of silkworm pupae, ground up the little animals, then carefully processed the mess to extract 100 milligrams (one three-hundredth of an ounce) of a hormone called ecdysone. They knew ecdysone played a large part in the silkworm's life cycle, and when they discovered that it was remarkably similar to human sex hormones, they were fascinated. But what, if anything, did it have to do with DNA's genetic code...
...decision broke the deadlock. The bishops approved Suenens' proposals in favor of collegiality. They turned down a Curia-sponsored move to make the Virgin Mary a major subject of debate, and passed a Curia-opposed proposal to revive the order of deacons in the church. With Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner, one of the four moderators, gaveling them onward, the bishops quickly approved a chapter in the liturgical schema on sacred art that approved "modern" art but condemned extreme abstractionism. This week they moved on to debate a second key schema that pinpoints the division of rights...
...authors' case against the appeasers is most devastating at its most intimate. They reveal the furious maneuvers of Chamberlain to avoid war before Munich and the cowardly attempts to coerce the Poles in August 1939. During negotiations, "the appeasers never remained firm for long. The essence of their craft was weakness, vacillation and uncertainty." Their worst crime, according to the authors, was that they "saw only what they wished...