Word: ramrodded
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Pastor Siegfried Schmutzler, 42, is a blond, ramrod-straight veteran who does not mind a fight. Last week he won a notable struggle with the Communist government of East Germany...
...Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...
...Prussian-born veteran of the Wehrmacht named Hans Hellmut Kirst wrote a book called Null-Acht-Fiinfzehn-the model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations. Old army pros denounced it, and the publisher's office was ransacked by hoodlums. But Gunner Asch became...
...estimate should be at full capacity within two years at the standard rate of $12 per three-minute New York-London call. With no atmospherics to throw it off, the submarine phone cable is bell-clear, is expected to be working at all times. Last week grey, ramrod-straight Monarch Captain James P. F. Betson, who kept in phone contact with shore technicians over the cable even as he was paying it out. gave it a glowing testimonial: "There is no background noise at all ... it is truly the silent voice under the ocean...