Word: basel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lecturing at the University of Basel. The vacancies have been filled by Soviet-lining conservatives, including Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, who won infamy last August as two members of the lone trio of Czechoslovaks who initially cooperated with the Russian invaders. The purges continue throughout the country, and more than 2,000 "control and revision" committees have been set up to oversee the ouster of lesser party officials and state bureaucrats whose liberal tendencies conflict with the policies of the new regime...
...Rhine is also one of the world's filthiest rivers. The crystalline waters that tumble from Alps near Reichenau, Switzerland, are choked with wastes by the time they pour into the North Sea, 820 miles away. At Basel, the Rhine picks up city sewage; the chemical industries near Mannheim dump acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine...
Died. Dr. Karl Jaspers, 86, eminent German philosopher, whose explorations into the nature of man established him as one of the foremost existentialist thinkers of his day; after a long illness; in Basel, Switzerland. Jaspers was a trained psychiatrist with deep spiritual convictions and a profound faculty for logic. Yet he considered science, religion, and reason incapable of elucidating man's complexities, holding that man can only grasp his authentic Being through confrontation with the vicissitudes of life. Like Kierkegaard, Jaspers embraced the Judeo-Christian belief that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that...
...then a professor at the University of Bonn, was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, which opposed the Nazi infiltration of Christianity as a heathen profanation of God's message. Expelled from Germany in 1935, Barth continued his war of words against Hitlerism from the University of Basel. Later he volunteered for the Swiss home defense force and served as a border guard during World...
...scenario calls for a quiet death among concerned chipmunks," Thomas Merton once wrote a friend after surviving major surgery, "and I'd like it that way." He did not get his wish. On the very day that Karl Barth lay dying in Basel, the 53-year-old Trappist poet-priest was attending an ecumenical conference of Roman Catholic and non-Christian monks in suburban Bangkok. Returning to his bungalow to rest during the hot afternoon, he reached out to adjust an electric fan and apparently touched an exposed wire. He was instantly electrocuted...