Word: speers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best junior girl racer for miles around and daughter of Schodl Board Chairman Rudy Pecjak. The following week the four were to ski in elimination races to determine the area's squad for the National Junior championships. Although they would not race under school auspices, Superintendent William Speer held that eligibility rules covered the elimination races...
...Over Speer's protests, and with the informal support of fellow board members, Papa Pecjak took Sharon out of school the day before the meet, drove her and other nonmathematicians to the elimination races at Winter Park, Colo. All four made the Nationals; Sharon won both the downhill and slalom races in her division...
Cooperative Teachers. The victories solved nothing. Superintendent Speer and the weekly Aspen Times blasted the school board for not following its own ruling. Earlier, Pecjak had offered to resign, was refused with thanks. Now Speer turned in his resignation, had it accepted by an unruffled school board. Last week Superintendent Speer turned over his job to the assistant superintendent, who also happens to be supervisor of high school ski instruction. At week's end Pecjak was standing firm on his statement that may have voted for that eligibility thing, but that doesn't mean I feel...
...unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...
Enter Hitler (Albin Skoda). The generals give him the bad news; he spits black bile and throws them out. Goebbels brings in the astrologer. "Im August Sieg!" At news of Roosevelt's death, the Führer does a jig. When Speer and Göring try to tell him the war is lost, he vests command in the SS. A squad of Hitler youth, who have done men's work in the battles before Berlin, are marched in to be decorated. Hitler pats their cheeks, pins medals on them and gives each one an éclair...