Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major in the 82nd Airborne, he had made combat jumps in Normandy and at the crossing of the Rhine, won the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart...
...Syracuse (5-0)-crushed West Virginia, 44-0 (see above...
...wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving out West Berlin. And second, "because I know that these ordinances are those of . . .a regime which I, in the name of God and Our Lord Jesus Christ, would like to see disappear...
...Authority. Printed as a 23-page brochure by Bishop Dibelius' friends, the bishop's birthday letter exploded like a bomb in both Germanys. "The most sensational and most unsettling for church members of all the sensational and unsettling things [Dibelius] has said, preached and written," spluttered the West German Lutheran biweekly Stimme der Gemeinde (Voice of the Congregation). Bishop Lilje recoiled from his surprise package. "I cannot share Dibelius' views,'' he said. "One can't drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church...
VOLKSWAGEN STOCK SALE has been agreed upon by West German federal government and state of Lower Saxony, will end a ten-year ownership dispute. Plan calls for 60% of shares to be sold to the public, 20% to be held by Bonn, 20% by Lower Saxony. To prevent majority control by a single group and to spread ownership as widely as possible, the $25 shares will be rationed five to an investor. To attract lower-income customers, initial sale will be restricted to German citizens making less than $4,000 a year...