Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White spent 2½ months in Nazi prison camps. After the war, he came back home and entered New York University as a freshman. He no sooner had his degree (electrical engineering) than the Korean war broke out. He had kept up his flying in the Air Force Reserve, and in 1951 was recalled to active duty. Though White saw no combat in Korea, he decided to stay in the Air Force. His cool, precise flying won him two years of experimental-test-pilot training. Since 1955. White has checked out four hot jet fighters...
After Britain's small but noisy neo-Nazi movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held...
...order to protect the judiciary from political pressure, the West German constitution specifies that judges must be appointed for life. In practice, the 1949 law has revealed a damaging defect: of the country's 11,600 judges, about 100 turned out to have sat on Nazi criminal courts. Growing increasingly sensitive to the presence of even the small number of tainted judges, Bonn's Bundestag in June 1961 unanimously passed a law offering full pensions to these judges if they voluntarily retired within a year. If they refused, the government would seek a constitutional amendment to remove them...
...ragged column of Nazi conscripts marching toward Poland was suddenly startled when a middle-aged recruit dropped out of line, turned around, and started marching homeward at the same tempo. A sergeant barked at him to stop, but Painter Werner Gilles replied mildly and matter-of-factly, "That blackbird up in that tree just told me, 'No, no, Gilles, this can come to no good.' " In time, Adolf Hitler's army psychiatrists sent Gilles back to the safety of civilian life, but for the painter the talking blackbird had been as real as the barking sergeant...
...Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller, Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters...