Word: secret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
...scholarly presidential candidate of the Social Democrats, Carlo Schmid. Adenauer's party whips were hard at work rounding up pledges for Lübke, fearing that Christian Democrats who resent Adenauer's recent moves, but have not dared oppose him openly, might take advantage of a secret ballot to vote for Socialist Schmid...
...with "perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from 1926 into the '305. As Peis reported it in the German weekly, Der Stern, and in the London Sunday Pictorial, it was straight soap opera. But Maria had letters to prove...
...Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired, 49-year-old widow-could not keep the delicious secret. She winked at Liberace. All over the courtroom the middle-aged motherly doves twittered...
...reason for her return is no secret: Josephine needs money. After World War II, after the excitement of helping the Resistance and the pocketful of citations (including the Legion of Honor), Josephine opened an orphanage for children of all races and creeds. But her lavish experiment in international race relations used up a fortune of 300 million francs ($600,000). Josephine decided to go back to work. The sentimentalists who come to cheer her chocolate arabesques are the financiers of her mission; they are also her accomplices in creating an illusion-that Paris and Josephine Baker have not really changed...