Word: writings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edited Jaroff's story, was astonished when his wife and four children, aged eleven to 19, insisted on rising with him in the middle of the night to keep check on Apollo transmissions. Senior Editor Michael Demarest, who laid aside his editor's pencil long enough to write the lead story of the flight's significance, had to deal with four children whose godfather, a space scientist involved in getting man to Mars, had made them extremely sophisticated about the precise details of the voyage. Ronald Kriss, whose own two children were no less fascinated...
...some of the most influential political figures in the U.S. The FBI agents received orders directly from J. Edgar Hoover, while Florida state police were getting the word from Democratic Senator George Smathers. And Barbara Jane was visited last week by family friend Richard Nixon, who urged her to write a book about the ordeal...
Letters from Soviet listeners, in fact, filter through fairly often. Some write to complain about programs they consider unfair to the Soviet Union. But many more make it clear that the diversity of opinion expressed in foreign broadcasts provides the most credible source for news about their own country as well as the world. Regular listeners are kept informed about U.S. urban strife and protests against the war in Viet Nam, for example, and the BBC led off a roundup of editorial comment two weeks ago with the disarmingly frank observation that "most politicians must agree that...
...Bismarck treasured them, and used their shells to break the power of France in Europe. The Kaiser presided over their marriage plans, and misused their steel and submarines to lose the first World War. Hitler was awed by them. Deep in World War II, he took time out to write a special law (the Lex Krupp) to keep their family fortune intact. In the minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame and fortune of Germany itself. Early in the century...
Dwarfs and Dragons. Coming to grips with this question, William Manchester offers exhaustive answers. The product of seven years' research (with interruptions to write and wrangle over Death of a President), his book is the first full-scale account of the Krupps to appear in the U.S. Trying to cope with the complex history of one of the world's richest and strangest families, Manchester inevitably circles back to the origins of the German nation and finally weaves into his narrative much of the history of Germany from 1870 to the present...