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NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...
...It’s a crazy time,” says Robert A. Hodgson ’05, who plays Walter, an undercover CIA agent. “We only have two weeks in the Mainstage,” he says, which is only a short time to show off the countless hours that go into the production...
...group of advisers thought we should try to force the missiles out without military action, that is by a quarantine--we called it a quarantine because a blockade is an act of war--and the other group recommended an attack. Kennedy asked General Walter Sweeney, chief of the Tactical Air Command, if he was certain he could take out all the missiles. Sweeney replied, "We have the finest fighter force in the world; we have trained for this kind of operation, and they would destroy the great majority. But there might be one or two or five left." What President...
Some 50 scientists from 13 countries, all members of the International Geophysical Year's conference on rockets and satellites, had gathered, along with a handful of journalists, for cocktails that night at the Soviet embassy on Washington's Sixteenth Street. New York Times science reporter Walter Sullivan was called to the phone and told that Moscow had announced that it had put a satellite into orbit. He hurried back and whispered the news in the ear of U.S. physicist Lloyd Berkner, who rapped on the hors d'oeuvre table until the hubbub quieted and dramatically declared to the unknowing...
...teams’ first meeting in November at Walter Brown Arena, BU won 3-0. The second contest was in the Fleet Center on the opening night of the Beanpot. Despite scoring first, the Crimson again fell to BU, this time 2-1. The difference between the two contests: defensive pressure...