Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bonn last week came news that surprised nobody: the nomination of West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, 46. as the Social Democratic candidate for Chancellor in next year's West German elections. Hungry for office-they have not won a single federal election since the West German Republic was established in 1949-the Socialists had turned, logically enough, to the man whom a recent public-opinion poll rated even more popular with West Germans of voting age than 84-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer himself...
Along with a new face, the Social Democrats put forward a new policy, designed to convert West German Socialism from a purely working-class party to one with an appeal for middle-class voters as well. Under pressure from Brandt-who would not take the nomination otherwise-the Socialists drastically cleaned out their ideological attic. Tossed into the dustbin with many other souvenirs of Victorian Marxism was the most cherished Socialist goal of all: nationalization. And abandoning their onetime fuzzy flirtation with the notion of neutralism, the Socialists now pledged to keep West Germany firmly in the Western alliance-including...
...which the Socialists are clearly determined to do better was the emotion-charged issue of reunification of East and West Germany. Fortnight ago, Germany's most eminent living philosopher, craggy Professor Karl Jaspers, 77, who now teaches at Switzerland's Basel University, flatly told a West German television audience that he believed the demand for reunification "un realistic." The excesses of the Hitler era, said Jaspers, had made a unified Germany unacceptable to the rest of the world and probably undesirable for Germans themselves. In 1960, he added, the only thing that made sense was to demand freedom...
...that goes." But in his quiet, unobtrusive way, Lyman L. Lemnitzer (TIME cover. May 11, 1959) climbed to the very top of the Army ladder. A World War II specialist in logistical problems, he drew up plans for the 1942 invasion of Africa, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, but remained enough of a combat soldier to go to parachute school at 51 and earn the Silver Star under fire while commanding the 7th Infantry Division in Korea. Commander of the U.N. forces in Korea (1955-57), he became Army Vice Chief of Staff in 1957, then Chief...
Grave sins cited by German second-graders most often included throwing away food or money or "making fun of God." But one moppet, asked to describe a small sin, disconcertingly replied, "Playing cowboy and taking Father's rifle and saying there's no bullet in it but there is and you shoot somebody dead...