Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere did Germany's famed-if now faded-postwar Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) shine more brightly than at Krupp. Under expansive, gregarious Berthold Beitz, whom Krupp brought in as his general manager in 1953, Krupp returned to the very top rank of German industrial companies. Sales have tripled since 1944 to last year's $1.35 billion, and the 3,000 items Krupp produces include almost everything but armaments, which Alfried banned...
...another compound, hundreds of the rank and file of the PLA pressed against the barbed-wire and called to reporters; Israeli soldiers sporting sub-machine guns converged on them and forced them back to a white, chalk line several feed from the barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole...
...propaganda-splashed meeting filled with speeches and mutual, comradely abrazos, and attended by Communists, leftists and other Castro friends, including the U.S.'s Stokely Carmichael and Folk Singer Barbara Dane. On the other level, the nuts-and-bolts business of subversion is being discussed by rank-and-file guerrillas, agitators and other Communists who are dedicated to Castro's "wars of liberation...
Described by the producer as "a cross between Tom Jones and Goldfinger," the new picture is a bitter, debunking black epic. It is based on Historian Cecil Woodham-Smith's book The Reason Why, a cold indictment of the military caste system that produced such rank incompetents as Lord Raglan (played by Gielgud), the general who gave the fateful order. At the time, he was so confused that he thought he was fighting the French. Another fact that the film exploits is the bravery-and arrogance-of Lord Cardigan (Howard), the general who led the charge. He penetrated...
President Johnson appointed Bowie to the position -- which carries the rank of Assistant Secretary of State -- last summer. Bowie took a leave of absence from the University last year, and this spring he received approval from Dean Ford to take a second year's leave...