Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing of the smug Genevois society, the curse of immobile prosperity in this self-centered community which likes to call itself Calvinist...
...pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays for encores. Said he: "It places no strain on the mentality of the American, the Englishman, the German or anyone else. The orchestra more or less plays by itself." Do lollipops concerts strain conductors' mentalities? Smiling wispily, Sir Thomas challenged: "How many conductors have mentality...
...amend the record, and last week Eastern Air Lines' Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, 69, found himself one up on some old military history. As the No. 1 U.S. flying ace of World War I, Medal-of-Honorman Rickenbacker has long been credited with an official bag of 21 German planes, four balloons. Last week the Air Force, acting on a claim submitted by Captain Eddie last year, affirmed that on May 7, 1918, not too high over France, he had indeed gunned down his 22nd enemy aircraft. He had not got credit for this kill because of "post-Armistice...
...German looked incredulously at the assortment of popular-priced cigarettes in a store in Bonn last week. "Are these real Luckies?" he asked, pointing to the familiar white pack with the red bull's-eye. They were, and the price was only 24? for a pack of twelve, cheaper than some German brands. For years Germans had to pay as much as 6 marks ($1.50) for a pack of 20 imported U.S. cigarettes. Now, for the first time, Luckies were being sold at much lower prices because they were being made in Germany...
...Germans first got a taste for U.S. cigarettes after World War II, when there was no domestic industry to speak of and a carton of "Amis" sold by a U.S. G.I. brought as much as $200 on the black market. Even after German cigarette makers got back in production, smokers still craved the Virginia blends, as opposed to the Oriental blends favored by domestic manufacturers. But because of the price, only the rich could afford imported U.S. cigarettes, grandly passed them around as a status symbol. The British-American Tobacco Co., which sells American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand...