Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia met in 1807 to carve up Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia. The precedence problem was solved by having the two monarchs set out simultaneously for the barge from the river banks; Napoleon, naturally, provided himself with the faster boat and arrived first...
...auto-borne families with a busy schedule of attractions. There are fashion shows and symphony concerts, pumpkin-judging contests and senior proms, reptile-club snake exhibits and "petting zoos" (for animals tame enough for tots to touch). Porpoises sometimes frolic in the 80-ft. pool at the King of Prussia Plaza near Valley Forge, Pa., and esprit runs so high that clerks don antique costumes and vie for prizes at the annual summer "sidewalk" sale...
...with revenues well above $3,000,000 a year, Manhattan's Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, Inc. is presently working on a new flooring for Monsanto, business machines for Pitney-Bowes, packages for Nabisco. Snaith recently designed the interior of a new Wanamaker's at King of Prussia, Pa., is planning a marina-office-motel complex in Connecticut and a vacation-house development in Vermont. Last week Fairchild-Hiller commissioned the firm to design the interiors for its twin...
When it was finally attempted, the assassination was thoroughly bungled Stauffenberg selected himself as the an-?el of destruction; it was his crippled hand that placed the briefcase stuffed with plastic explosives at Hitler's feet in a briefing hut in East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight...
CENTER THEATER GROUP, Los Angeles, Calif. The Sorrows of Frederick, a new play about Frederick the Great of Prussia by Romulus Linney, will be performed at the Mark Taper Forum until Aug. 6, with Fritz Weaver in the title role. From Aug. 25 until Oct. 8, Duerrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi will be presented...