Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Levin ranges skillfully through Berlin ministries, where Nazi bureaucrats enthusiastically pursued their policy of Endlosung ("final solution") for the Jews, to Warsaw's Umschlagplatz, a transfer point to Treblinka, where a child's tongue was cut out "with a pocket knife for making a face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward...
...Moscow Llewellyn Thompson called on Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov to request Moscow's intervention, he was almost rudely brushed off. A second visit, this time with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, yielded an equally frosty response. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski reported from Warsaw that he was discussing the matter with the Polish government...
Died. Leopold Infeld, 69, Polish theoretical physicist; of a heart ailment; in Warsaw. At Princeton during the 1930s, Infeld helped his friend Albert Einstein develop the general theory of relativity; with Einstein he also shared the work of writing The Evolution of Physics, a 1938 text so fascinating to laymen that it hit the bestseller lists. At the University of Toronto, Infeld did pioneer work on the unified-field theory of magnetism and gravitation; then, in 1950, he suddenly returned home to teach-and proved something of a problem to the Communists, often criticizing Warsaw's scientific censorship...
...were under way in Moscow, and the fact that Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin hurried home after two lengthy talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk seemed to lend credence to them (though the Russians insisted that Dobrynin had gone home to see his ailing father-in-law). In Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski met with Chinese diplomats for the first time in seven months, but no news was permitted to filter from behind the closed doors. In Hanoi, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Phourissara held talks with high North Vietnamese officials...
Born a dermatologist's son in Warsaw in 1884, Dr. Funk left Switzerland's Bern University in 1904 with a Ph.D. in chemistry and began his research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, moving on to London's Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in 1910. He pursued the causes of beriberi, the deficiency disease that attacks the nerves, heart and digestive system. Beriberi was particularly prevalent in those days among Eastern peoples whose diet consisted mainly of polished rice...