Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barracks and torture cells. From the leading car stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President Theodor Heuss unveiled the memorial seven years...
Ostensibly, the leaders of the eight Communist-bloc countries who held an "Eastern summit" in Moscow last week had gone to talk agriculture. But their final communique was all about Berlin. And it was tough. "If efforts directed at signing a peace treaty with both German states do not meet support" at the Big Four summit, it said, the Communist bloc would all sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and "on this basis solve the problem of West Berlin as well." Naturally, these sentiments were unanimously adopted...
...flogged. Once, when a limousine with diplomatic license plates was slow getting out of his way, he jumped out of his own car and began shrieking abuse at the offender. But that time Mohammed was forced to apologize, because his astonished victim turned out to be the West German ambassador...
Born into a nonmusical family (his father is a Westinghouse distributor) of mixed German-Dutch ancestry, Schippers at eight shocked his parents, staunch members of the Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church, by joining St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo-because it had a good boys' choir. Schippers managed to finish high school when he was 13, moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed...
...named Rosemary (Nadja Tiller). ''My first big break!" she sighs happily, and so it turns out. Soon she is set up as a grosse cocotte with a fancy flat and a flashy white Mercedes of her own. Then she takes on a sideline: selling information about the German munitions makers to their French competitors. Then she takes on another: blackmail. One night nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll up to the door of her apartment house. A scream is heard. The nine limousines roll out of sight in sober single file...