Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring not just from an erratic personality, as is often thought, but from Communist tactics. It was in keeping with Leninist tactics that, following his threat-shouting, table-pounding press conference in Paris, he flew on to East Berlin and, as the reasonable man of peace, soberly told East German Reds that he was going to let the Berlin situation "ripen" for six or eight months-until after the U.S. presidential election...
Eichmann at first worked as a surveyor for a German-American engineering firm called Capri. For the next several years he turned up under various aliases in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. By 1956 he was back in Argentina with a job as mechanic in the capital's outskirts, worked later on as an overseer on a farm in the interior. In 1958 he returned to Buenos Aires, became an office employee in an automobile plant and lived near the airport with his German wife and four children (the last was born after his family joined...
...last ten years there has not really been any U.S. Secretary of State.-During all that time the real Secretary of State of the United States has been the German Chancellor Adenauer...
Died. Saro Melikian (born Solomon Teilirian), 63, Armenian hero acquitted in a sensational 1921 German trial despite his confession that he had assassinated Talaat Pasha, World War I Turkish Grand Vizier (who introduced genocide to the 20th century by ordering the massacre of 500,000 Armenians); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco, where he was employed as an office clerk. Said Melikian to German police after his arrest: "It is not I who am the murderer; it is Talaat. I have lived only to revenge...
Masters of the Congo Jungle (International Scientific Foundation; 20th Century-Fox) is an anthropological documentary film that was sponsored by King Leopold III of Belgium and photographed in Ruanda-Urundi and the Congo by a team of German cameramen. It makes a sort of safari through the soul of primitive man. For most of the distance, a spectator is apt to have the disturbing sensation that he is traveling through an endless python...