Word: wessell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIETRICH WESSEL sat on the side of the stage in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday night smoking a cigarette, staring at the audience in disbelief. A leader in German SDS, Wessel had spoken for about an hour on his movement, its goals, its background, its accomplishments. Midway through his speech, the hissing had started. The people who had been talking in the back began to hiss. They didn't want to hear Wessel. They were bored, they held up watches to tell Wessel that he was taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel...
...German SDS. But the rudeness and closed-mindedness that was displayed Friday night is representative of a mood at Harvard, a feeling among many Harvard students that they know all they want to know, that nobody can tell them anything. But, perhaps even more significantly--and this is what Wessel undoubtedly found so hard to believe--what happened Friday night showed that many people at Harvard like to consider themselves "radical" without doing anything about it. They like to be against the war, to talk about "radicalizing" people and confronting the University, without truly committing themselves to their politics...
...overflow crowd of 800 in Lowell Lecture Hall alternately hissed and cheered speeches last night by Mark Rudd of Columbia SDS and Deitrich Wessel of the German...
Harvard SDS leaders called the meeting the strongest turnout in their history. But it soon became evident that half the crowd was more interested in viewing a free movie than in starting the Revolution. Knots of open-collared, sports-jacketed students sat yawning and chatting through Wessel's hour and ten minute opening speech...
Gehlen turns over to his hand-picked successor, Lieut. General Gerhard Wessel, 54, an organization of 3,500 full-time employees that ranks after the CIA and Britain's MI-6 as the free world's most ubiquitous intelligence service. Though he will slip into retirement as furtively as he conducted his operations, Gehlen can take some pride in the fact that his reputation for omniscience has entered the German language. In response to an unanswerable question, a West German is likely to reply, "Das weiss nur der Gehlen" (Only Gehlen knows that...