Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the popularity of West Berlin's fiery Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, who will be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's principal opponent in next September's national election. With his record of standing up to the Russians in Berlin, Brandt is invulnerable to the usual charge that German Socialists are "soft" on Communism. So Christian Democrats are attacking Brandt on other grounds-charging that during World War II, Willy Brandt was "anti-German," even fought against Germans in the Norwegian army...
...sure, short of a major reversal, the Soviet Union would derisively reject any such proposals. But the reason is not that they would fail to contribute to stability. Rather it is that the Soviet Union is reluctant" (sic) "to give up its East German puppet, its springboard for wrecking NATO and for the eventual domination of all of Germany. The melancholy fact may be that in their present state of mind the Soviet leaders are interested only in those agreements in Europe which contribute to instability...
...Jugular Area. Born in Buffalo and raised in Milwaukee, Walter Heller early decided on the shape of his career: "I wanted to combine the academic background with public service." He acquired a respect for learning and for public service from his German-born father, a civil engineer whom Heller recalls as an ''immensely wide reader. As a child I took for granted a range of parental information that as a parent I have never been able to live up to myself. My father knew the answer to every damn question a kid could think...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...
...appears next as a French patriot during the German occupation. Camus was an underground fighter and won a celebrated anonymity for his editorials contributed to the illegal Combat. The experience did two things for his prose style. He guarded and measured out his words as if they were blood plasma, and he was so totally committed that later he could write to someone doing some painless cheering for the Hungarian rebels: ''We may be generous only with our own blood." Camus was not just a voter in a democracy; he was one of its votaries...