Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Shenandoah broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned at Lakehurst, NJ. For a while the world all but gave up lighter-than-air craft. Later, using its almost limitless supply of nonflammable helium to keep the ships aloft, the U.S. began to concentrate on nonrigid blimps. With their flexible, rubberized skins, they seemed to ride through rough...
Just Like Hitler. Khrushchev's portable platform was a scraggly, 15-bus convoy that wound through the peaceful Austrian countryside. For a starter, at the old Mauthausen concentration camp where 123,000 prisoners died, Khrushchev denounced German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for "Hitler" policies and later elaborated on the theme: "Hitler opened his mouth and wanted to swallow everybody. Adenauer licks his lips, he gets angry, but he cannot move from the spot. Should he attempt to touch the Socialist countries, he will be smashed immediately on the spot. Immediately...
Both the U.S. and West Germany sharply protested Austria's refusal to "dissociate" itself from the tirades. But Khrushchev could not be stopped. At a final press conference, he warned that if the West German Bundestag held its annual symbolic meeting in Berlin this fall as planned, he might seize the occasion to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. Chortled Nikita: "This would mean that all members of the Parliament would have to ask for visas from the East German government to get back home...
With all the world talking about the urgent importance of granting economic aid to developing countries, the quiet man off in the corner has been the Federal Republic of West Germany. West German gold and foreign-exchange reserves have shot up to a whacking $6.5 billion (British holdings: $2.8 billion), and West German exports now top those of every other European country. Yet since 1956 the Germans have spent just $60 million altogether in technical aid. Last week when the nine-nation Development Assistance Group met in Bonn, the U.S.'s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury T. Graydon Upton...
Died. Harry Pollitt. 69, a founder of the British Communist Party in 1920, who served as its general secretary from 1929 (except for a two-year downgrading following the 1939 Russo-German pact) until 1956, when, as a Stalinist, he was kicked upstairs to the party chairmanship; of a stroke; at sea off Australia...