Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall against the rest of the world. France and Italy, both high-tariff countries, lowered their duties the first agreed notch, Germany and the Benelux countries raised theirs a bit. By 1966 the Community, more familiarly known as the Common Market, should be fully operative. Then Italian Fiats and German Volkswagens, for instance, will be able to enter France duty-free, but the tariff on U.S. and British cars will remain a stiff...
...take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade by a third...
Ballad of a Soldier (Mosfilm; Kingsley-Frankel). A Russian soldier scuttles like a desperate bug across an open field. Like a big grey toad, a German tank relentlessly pursues him. Bullets frisk about his heels. He dodges, drops his gun, falls, runs on, gasps, reels with exhaustion. The screen reels, tilts crazily, tilts further . . . Suddenly the image is upside down, the world is upside down. Yet still across a sky of mud the soldier flees, and still the tank pursues...
...Taussig took one Joseph A. Schumpeter, old-time socialist of the Austro-German school, into his own home, built him up as an international authority in economics. Unwittingly Taussig also aided the career of Harry Dexter White who, because of his Harvard prestige, became in our Treasury Department, the chief financial policy maker. He repaid the U.S.A. as we all know by becoming a Soviet agent...
...University of Illinois (TIME, July 25). The school has seven science labs, a greenhouse, an animal house and a 30-booth language lab. Since Brown believes that the "college-bound student should be able to handle four years each of two languages," the school teaches Latin, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and now Chinese. Says Brown: "The secret is to make the curriculum as exciting as possible, and just as exciting for the slow as for the talented...