Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Francis Hicks, 60, radio and TV announcer for NBC since the 1930s, best known for his stirring D-day description of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, coolly broadcasting from the deck of the command ship A neon while under severe attack by Nazi bombers; of cancer; in Queens...
Belyayev, 39, and the oldest cosmonaut who has yet flown in space, was born in the Vologda region east of Leningrad. As a child he skied three miles to school and tried at 16 to join the ski troops in the war with Nazi Germany...
...Train. The setting is occupied Paris in August 1944. With the Allied liberation at hand, an ascetic Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) orders his troops into the Jeu de Paume Museum to crate up Van Goghs, Utrillos, Manets, Cezannes, Picassos-altogether some 1,200 impressionist and postimpressionist canvases, destined for a rail trip to Berlin. "Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it," says Scofield. Given secret orders to stop the train, a French railroad inspector...
...time, Director Frankenheimer barrels along on a track that really wails. The art train steams toward, then away from, the German border, cunningly diverted by a Resistance plot that disguises whole villages along the route. It squeaks through a spectacular 50-second bombing raid in which a Nazi armored train is pulverized-a scene achieved with 140 charges of dynamite, nine cameras, several dozen expendable engines and boxcars purchased from French National Railroads, and considerable ingenuity on the part of Special Effects Ace Lee Zavitz (who arranged the burning of Atlanta in 1939's Gone With the Wind). Another...
...Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector, and a smashingly sexy American girl who turns out to be an Israeli agent. The backgrounds, chiefly Berlin and London, are deftly convincing; the derring-do is deadpan and understated; the wit is astringent but genuinely funny...