Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January, as a calculated harassment, the Russians announced that the regular Soviet passes issued to Allied missions in East Germany were no longer valid. Instead, the Russians offered new passes co-stamped by the Soviets' puppet East German state. The U.S. refused to be drawn into a trap that would amount to recognizing the legal existence of the so-called German Democratic Republic, and the battle of the passes began. Britain, France and the U.S. retaliated by ordering the twelve-man Russian missions in their zones not to venture out of town...
...episode of the Bismarck was one of the more peculiar and dramatic sea fights of World War II. On May 21, 1941, the day after the German invasion of Crete, the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck was reported steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Two days later, the pride of the Nazi navy was sighted speeding south toward the shipping lanes of the open Atlantic. Two British ships of the line engaged her. Bismarck quickly sank H.M.S. Hood, the biggest ship in the British battle fleet, and battered Prince...
...liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words and credit. He loved England, yet became a pro-German propagandist in the U.S. during World...
Rosemary (German). The life and death of a high-priced prostitute add up to a biting, highly amusing commentary on West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), effectively using masses of black Mercedes as a kind of silent chorus and some highly worth-Weill songs to underscore the satire...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Directed by Broadway's Sidney (Caligula) Lumet, James Mason, Trevor Howard and Richard Basehart star in an adaptation of Robert Shaw's new novel, The Hiding Place, (TIME, Feb. 22). The plot: R.A.F. flyers are prisoners of a crazed German...