Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant rising at Kosice, the Czechs have had to sign a contract to supply the Russians with mining machinery to help boost Soviet ore production. So prickly, in fact, are the hedges between COMECON partners that in the pipeline network now being laid to carry Volga oil to East German, Czech and Hungarian factories, each country builds and owns the part within its territory. "There is no charity among Communists," says a Czech official. "Business is business...
...booming West Germany, growled Berlin Critic Friedrich Luft, imported plays pack 160 theaters nightly, "but [German] culture is dead." France's top political theorist, Raymond Aron, apologized because democracy has abandoned parliamentary rule in France, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer apologized for all the wrongs he said science has done, and U.S. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith seemed to be apologizing because the U.S. is building skyscrapers instead of schools. U.S. Novelist Mary McCarthy moaned: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse...
...GERMAN UNEMPLOYMENT has dropped to an alltime low, with 500,000 jobs open and only 153,000 unemployed to fill them. Economic boom is so great that rumors of an upward revaluation of the mark are circulating, but West German government and Federal Bank deny them...
There are other reasons besides wages for going abroad. The International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which announced last week that it may soon resume sales of foreign-made consumer equipment (radios, appliances, etc.) in the U.S., is already bringing in automatic post-office equipment made by its Belgian and German subsidiaries. Reason: I.T. & T. says that the equipment is technically superior to any available in the U.S. Manhattan's Lafayette Brass Manufacturing
Discovery in Heidelberg. After working his way through the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Barnes went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol...