Word: sportspalast
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Peter Van Eyck, a big blond German who looks like the Sportspalast sculpture of Superman, plays the chief engineer of an isolated oil-pumping station somewhere in the northern Sahara: a tyrannical infant with an infantile solution to the problem of suffering-he gives pain to other people and keeps pleasure for himself...
...Berlin, 9,000 jazz fans crowded into Berlin's Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while...
...fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...
...beloved leader kept quiet. In the afternoon it was Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels who stood before the crowd in the Sportspalast. "The hard necessities of warfare do not permit him [Hitler] to leave his headquarters," he said...
...occasion was the Harvest Thanksgiving Day. The place was the Berlin Sportspalast where Adolf Hitler had commented four days before on German victories. The speaker this time was Reich Marshal Hermann Göring. The subject was Göring's favorite: Food...