Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There are signs that President-elect Kennedy is thinking along Norstad's lines. In a book review written for the Satur day Re-view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell...
NATO would then become the world's fifth power. Inevitably that means giving nuclear weapons to Germany, the new NATO power in Europe. With the memory of the Nazi armies so fresh in the minds of many Europeans, this is no easy decision. Properly enough, the man who will...
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Brown Study. At 45, Franz Josef Strauss is a brawny, brawling bull of a Bavarian who symbolizes the unsettling vitality of the new Germany. Rough, ruthless and flamboyant, he bowls over obstacles in his way like a Tiger tank smashing through a Pomeranian pine forest. He is youthful, energetic, smart...
Youngest and toughest member of Adenauer's Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he...