Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Captain Eduard Wedmann, 36, a former artillery officer in the Eighth Motorized Rifle Division in Schwerin, reported that recent East German military exercises presuppose an invasion of West Germany using nuclear weapons at the outset, without regard to whether West Germany has used them first. Explained the divisional commander: "We have no nuclear weapons now, but when they are needed, they will be available...
...overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from a visit to Denmark, Elizabeth had no such protection as she jetted along near the West German-Dutch border at a 35,000-ft. altitude. The Queen missed the end of her reign by an estimated 50 ft. Angling in on the Queen's R.A.F. Comet, Orion, came two U.S.-made Sabre jet fighters. They closed with the Comet at more than 1,000 m.p.h., whooshed...
Arriving in West Berlin for a Crusade for Freedom jamboree, able Economist-Diplomat Eleanor Dulles Blondheim, sister of the late Secretary of State and long one of State's top German specialists, got a bear hug that almost fractured her dignity. She was met by a hidebound impersonator enacting the role of the beleaguered city's bear symbol. Widow Dulles disengaged herself from the affectionate embrace, went on to help West Berlin celebrate the tenth anniversary of the city's U.S.-donated Freedom Bell...
Last week the man seemed to be everywhere. There was an exhibit of his drawings in Paris, a show of lithographs in Holland. France's Musée des Arts Décoratifs is planning a major retrospective, and a gallery in the West German city of Hannover has just opened a display of 88 works that left visitors wavering between awe and revulsion. In Manhattan, World House Galleries was holding a Dubuffet retrospective of its own-a modest (41 works) but well-selected sampling of a strange career...
Born. To Konrad Adenauer Jr., 54, director of a Cologne mining company and eldest son of the West German Chancellor, and Carola Adenauer; their sixth child (the 84-year-old Chancellor's 21st grandchild), a son; in Cologne. Name Max Patrick...