Word: zeitung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, makes an inviting target. With eight newspapers and six magazines, he is West Germany's biggest publisher. He controls 31% of the circulation of all of Germany's daily newspapers, a percentage few other Western publishers come close to matching.* His rather sensational Bild Zeitung, published in Hamburg with a Berlin edition, has a circulation of 4,446,000, largest of any paper on the Continent. His more thoughtful Die Welt (circ. 280,000) is one of Germany's most influential papers. Its Sunday edition, along with Springer's other paper, Bild am Sonntag, accounts...
...claim he might have had to the royal palaces and grounds, and declined even to live in Austria. Nevertheless, Austria's royally spooked Socialists still heard the clanking of imperial chains. "He doesn't leave any doubt about his intentions," cried Vienna's daily Arbeiter Zeitung. "He allows himself to be photographed in front of a palace...
...even the Germans are beginning to realize that they have gone too far, and compulsive handshaking is finally on the wane. A recent poll showed that 23% of all German adults are against handshaking as the normal way to greet people. Germany's largest tabloid daily, Bild Zeitung, recently denounced handshaking in a front-page story, declaring that "not only is handshaking unhygienic and impractical but it also wastes too much valuable time." West Germany's unquestioned arbiter of social grace, the Expert Committee for Good Manners (a branch of the German Dancing Teachers League), has joined...
...echoes, West German critics are unanimously agreed that Janssen, 37, has a substance of his own. "He distills from tradition," said Süddeutsche Zeitung. He also distills from experience. The illegitimate son of a seamstress, Janssen spent his adolescence in an SS training academy, became an alcoholic by the age of 22, ran a liquor parlor hard by Hamburg's reeking Reeperbahn, served seven months in jail in 1951-52 for stabbing his fiancée in the abdomen in a fit of jealous rage...
...European capital market," comments Switzerland's respected Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "has increasingly lost its European character and has grown into the nature of a European-American financial partnership." Many Europeans devoutly hope that U.S. businessmen, whose sales there have now reached $18.6 billion annually with profits approaching $2 billion, will broaden the partnership. For one thing, they would like to see more equity financing-sales of stock in U.S. firms' European operations to the European consumers who make them possible-rather than constant bond flotations...