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...North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
...where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled Abrams, "and we can fight by ourselves." It was Abrams in his Sherman tank who led the relief column into Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. It was Abrams again who led the dash to the Rhine, moving so fast that he once surprised a German general and his staff with their boots up on their desks...
...were talking European politics instead of the other way round, some of our better known play-wrights wrote with glaring naivete about countries and people they had no right to understand. Several noteworthy plays issued from this preoccupation-- Robert Sherwood's Idiots' Delight, Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine--but they were marked either by inaccuracy, as in Sherwood's case, or by vagueness, as in Hellman's. The heart of America's fascination with fascism was ignorance, and to be alert and liberal was less than to be knowledgable...
...scavenging genius of the American instinct runs deep: use anything, adapt everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...
...strong in the Middle East, where a number of oil states-including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain-learned of plans to pull back Britain's 6,000 troops guarding the Persian Gulf oil route, probably in 1971. Britain even placed its European commitments under review, especially the Rhine Army of 52,000, whose continued presence in West Germany seemed more dependent on German offers to offset costs than anything else. In fact, as Defense Minister Denis Healey watched his establishment mercilessly pared, he must have wondered somewhat whether his entire ministry was not one of the three suggested...