Word: saving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breaking away from Geneva's torpid air, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter flew to West Berlin last week to reassure 2,200,000 West Berliners that the U.S. had not forgotten its "binding commitment" to save them from Communist slavery. Said Herter: "I know that the people of West Berlin regard our troops and those of France and the United Kingdom as defenders of their freedom. I know, too, that the presence of these troops-which will be preserved-is indispensable to that freedom...
...question of motive became important. As the years passed, 15 books, including one by Allen Dulles (then in charge of U.S. espionage against Germany), were written to show that to an unsuspected extent, the plot was a sincere and patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else...
From Marina Grande most visitors take a shiny new aluminum funicular (fare: 28?) up to the tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...none of Director Capra's sharp, knowing touches about people really save this one-act vignette from being lost for 120 minutes on the wide screen. To beef it all up, he has loaded it with unconscionable plugs for the Miami Beach shoreline, an expensive hotel, fashion models, flamingos and dog races. But not even Capra could plug all the holes...
Five years ago, they decided to ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen...