Word: reich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extended by the jet-flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas, have two irremediable defects: 1) they are uncomfortably close to the Iron Curtain-many of them less than ten minutes by jet; 2) their supply lines run back eastward toward Soviet Germany. "The U.S. Air Force in Germany," cracked a U.S. staff officer after the fields...
...transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...
Besides renewing old school acquaintances around 1:55 p.m., Pete Reich will probably play some excellent two way football at guard. Reich, whose older brother Alan was a star halfback for Dartmouth last year, has played both ways for two years and is the Green captain. John Godfrey, one of the two non-lettermen of the starting team is one of the bright spots on the team. A junior who rated low on the pre-season Indian totem pole he has played both ways in almost every game at the other guard post. Alex Athanas, heaviest of the guards...
...Seven. Oklahoma has seasoned backs (notably fleet Billy Vessels), sturdy linemen (notably Linebacker-Center Tom Catlin), and a tradition of five straight Big Seven championships. No. 2: Kansas, with 1951's able backfield improved by experience and the presence of Army's 1950 quarterback, Gil Reich...
Like weeds in the rubble, a cluster of neo-Nazi parties sprouted in postwar Germany. The only one to cause any serious worry among U.S. officials was the Socialist Reich party (SRP), which last year polled 360,000 votes in Lower Saxony. Its mouthpiece was a cut-rate Goebbels, former Major General Otto Ernst Remer, who peddled the line that Germany must return to the "good things" in Naziism. Last November, the West German government jailed Remer, asked the federal constitutional court to outlaw the party...