Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists sanctioned the meeting of the East and West Germans-"Germans at one table," was their slogan-in the hope of promoting themselves as the champions of German unity. East German President Wilhelm Pieck in person attended the opening session in East Berlin's graceful Gothic Marienkirche (he tried to slip in through the center portal usually reserved for brides, bishops and, in the old days, the Kaiser, but was hurriedly eased over to a side door...
...ladies abroad: Ambassador to Denmark Eugenie Anderson "is loved by everybody." Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta "is the darling of Luxembourg; people just adore her." Margaret Truman did "a great job, making friends for the whole U.S.," and Mrs. John McCloy, wife of the U.S. High Commissioner, "sees every German who wants...
...information officer, Brigadier General Frank A. Allen. Though a good combat officer, Allen's record as a P.R.O. does not inspire confidence in war correspondents. As press chief for General Eisenhower during World War II, he was blamed for holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. He also held up the news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that the U.N. delegation would insist on press representation at Kaesong. Said...
...handicap, and by 1926, Sir Roderick was forced to sell a controlling interest in the agency to Britain's provincial papers. Its troubles increased as A.P. Boss Kent Cooper expanded his international service and broke up the cartel run by "Reuters Rex," Havas (the French agency) and Wolff (German), which had divided up the world...
...pleasant, picturesque seafaring town 125 miles down the California coast from San Francisco, includes among its 16,000 population two notable linguistic groups: the sardine fishermen, who speak Portuguese, and the U.S. Army and Air Force men, who speak in many tongues-Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Persian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Last week 190 new officers and men arrived in town. Within eleven months, most of them will also be speaking new languages with rapid-fire fluency...