Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the memories hurt. "Well, have you had a good life since?" one of the Americans asked Wiemann. He was quiet for a moment, then said, "Yes, after the first six or seven years." His part of East Prussia was taken over by the Soviets, and there was no home for him to return to. The war was half- forgotten for the Americans in 1955, but for one of the former prisoners, Hans Richter, 60, that was the year he fled East Germany with 60 pfennigs in his pocket. He found a job near Wiesbaden as a machinist...
...previous weekend to recall Clausen hastily from his retirement in Washington. His task: to take over as chief executive officer from the man who was both his successor and now his predecessor, President Samuel Armacost, 47, who resigned on Oct. 10. Directors also bade farewell to BankAmerica Chairman Leland Prussia, 57, who took early retirement. Now Clausen must deal quickly with a flood of red ink amounting to almost $1 billion in losses in the past five quarters at BankAmerica. He also faces the unwelcome challenge of a more than $2 billion merger offer from Los Angeles-based First Interstate...
...think the bank will struggle along without needing any bailout from the FDIC. A more likely possibility would be a merger with another bank, perhaps even with one of the Japanese institutions that have gained a foothold in California in recent years. "Stranger things have happened," says Chairman Leland Prussia. "If someone comes up with a good proposal, we would consider it seriously." Time could be running out for the bank's president and chief executive, Samuel | Armacost, who may be ousted if he fails to engineer a turnaround in the next year...
Biographer Rhodes James' nomination of the Prince Consort as "perhaps the most astute and ambitious politician of his age" seems one compliment too far; Metternich was still active in the decade when Albert married Victoria, and Bismarck became Premier of Prussia in 1862, the year after Albert died. This Albert memorial serves mainly to persuade readers that, compared with most European royalty, the Prince was a giant. Alas, a giant among royalty is only man-size anywhere else...
...Central Europe; of pneumonia; at his home in Bad Honnef, outside Bonn, West Germany. One of Germany's military elite, Speidel became disgusted with Hitler's conduct of the war and joined the unsuccessful bomb plot to kill the Nazi dictator at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters. Remaining silent under interrogation, Speidel survived the subsequent Gestapo inquisition. When West Germany's army was finally rebuilt in the mid-1950s, he was called to help and became one of NATO's most respected commanders...