Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Korff was born in the Ukraine, the son of a rabbi; his mother was shot during a pogrom. During World War II, Korff was a member of a group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...
...Borbón, grandson of King Alphonso XIII of Spain and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of England. He was chosen by Franco in 1969 to ascend the throne after his death, in the hope that the royal scion would assure an orderly succession and maintain the stern, one-party system that the dictator had created. Whether the enigmatic Prince, 36, can meet these hopes is as problematical as the currents of suppressed rage and rebellion that course through Spain. Some hard-line conservatives perceive the Prince as a weakling incapable of wielding power. Their choice may be Juan...
...game of give-and-take, each delegation has the same goal: to give as little and seize and enclose as much as possible. The scene in Caracas is one of almost Byzantine intrigue. Africans in flowing robes, Chinese in crisp gray tunics, Indians in Nehru jackets, Western diplomats in stern gray suits-all huddle in the maze of meeting rooms, trying to align dreams, schemes and means...
...next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...
...Herbert J. Stern, 37, used his prodigious memory and zeal for work to enforce high morality in positions of public trust. As U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he waged a war on corruption that yielded indictments of 70 public officials-including a mayor, secretaries of state, an ex-speaker of the New Jersey assembly, a police chief, assorted judges, postmasters, highway superintendents, even a U.S. Congressman. A graduate of Hobart and the University of Chicago Law School, Stern headed the investigation of the Malcolm X murder case as assistant district attorney in New York City. It led to three convictions...