Word: saxonizes
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...journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...glamour of business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
...major powers, has tried to see that its citizens on duty in foreign countries are assured as nearly equal legal rights as they would have at home. This is relatively uncomplicated in European nations, where the "host-nation" juridical system usually has more of a common basis with Anglo-Saxon law, but it creates difficulties in the Far and Middle East, because the 19th century practice of extraterritoriality is identified with imperialism's toplofty ways...
...skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think...
Historically, the Roman Catholic Church is identified with nationalism in Poland as it is in few other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland...