Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point at issue is one that plagues all armies: Should an officer obey orders that he believes violate his conscience or his honor? German generals were found guilty at Nurnberg and executed by the Allies because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain...
...Britons know well, and on cue they burst into selfcriticism. Critics cited examples of British firms that still often give Continental customers specifications of products in feet instead of meters. Others complained that some British companies neglect to provide service for their products after they sell them, as their German rivals do. Still others told of Dutch and German firms that snatched contracts away from Britons by promising months earlier delivery on heavy machinery orders. At one exporters' conference, Peter Tennant, overseas director of the Federation of British Industries, warned that the British were getting a "bad reputation...
...present force, 37 temporarily dropped out of the military to come to Laos and the rest were drawn from the retired list. Under their flapping shirts is more than one gung-ho tattoo, such as "3rd Division Forever." At the top is Heintges, Coblenz-born son of a former German officer, and a 1936 graduate of West Point who rose rapidly through the infantry officer ranks during heavy fighting in Italy and France during World War II. After the war he was made chief of the military advisory group in West Germany. To take on the Laos...
...monkey in a Colorado gold mine. Keys came home with a new straw hat and $75 -and finally stayed long enough to finish high school. A budding chemist in his freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, he loaded up with brain-crushing courses (chemistry, physics, calculus, German, Chinese, English), worked 30 hours a week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture the chemistry department's sole scholarship, Keys...
...jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh. There the name vaguely connotes new-rich wealth, a reputation for eccentricity, and an ardor for collecting art. Last week, in the German city of Diisseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause. On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection-and every single one of them was up for sale...