Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...still bent on curtailing his propaganda opportunities, his hosts successfully resisted Nikita's demand for equal time on Paris' city hall steps, where President Eisenhower spoke last September. They also held out against his demand to visit Strasbourg, suspecting that there, on the Franco-German border itself, the Soviet tourist might let fly with a tirade against the Germans...
...number of East Germans fleeing west (3,500,000 since 1945) is again on the rise. Reason: the Communist regime has launched another big drive to collectivize the East German countryside...
Expelled in disgrace. Cousteau was shipped to a rigorous pension in Alsace ruled by a former German schoolteacher. The change was instantaneous. Under challenge and discipline, Cousteau turned scholar. He easily passed the tough exams for the naval academy, where he graduated second in his class ("I even studied with a flashlight in bed"). He set out to learn how to fly, had soloed and was about to graduate from the navy's air academy when he borrowed his father's Salmson sports car to go to a wedding. Rounding a curve, the headlights suddenly flickered out. When...
VOLKSWAGEN STOCK will be sold to the public for as much as $75 a share (indicating a desire to further free enterprise in West Germany), and German buyers can now get Volkswagen cars with almost immediate delivery because of a rise in Volkswagen production and competition from foreign cars...
...Germany, the Frankfurt exchange retreated only momentarily from its all-time high of 386 on the industrial index, soon rallied to 380. German experts blamed the break chiefly on massive flotations of new stock by expanding German coal and steel firms, which temporarily flooded the market...