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...went to M.I.T. determined to become an electrical engineer, but quit after his junior year to join a men's shoe company that his father had launched. By 1932 he was president of the company, and shortly afterward began branching out into women's and children's shoes. When shoe manufacturing failed to share in the boom of the 1950s, he started looking for more promising enterprises, moved into lingerie, sleepwear, knitwear and retailing...
...Yorker carried a memorable cartoon showing two coal miners looking up goggle-eyed, and one exclaiming: "For gosh sakes. here comes Mrs. Roosevelt." It was hilarious if only because it was so true: soon afterward Eleanor Roosevelt indeed descended into a coal mine. In those days she had not yet become controversial: to her critics she was a gadabout and do-gooder, to her admirers she was a dedicated friend of the oppressed, and to everyone, she was a marvel of omnipresent vitality. Later she aroused stronger passions; she was both hated and loved. But she outlived most...
Augstein is a vigorous backer of the Free Democratic Party, the small group that shares power in an uneasy coalition with Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Had Stammberger known in advance of the planned arrests, he might well have blocked the scheme. Afterward. Stammberger became so angry that he threatened to quit and take his four F.D.P. colleagues with him out of the coalition Cabinet. But in the end Adenauer salved his hurt feelings by firing a couple of the second-level ministerial officials involved in the arrests. They were obviously political scapegoats. The compromise hardly satisfied Der Spiegel...
...Spain and West Germany for political crimes, all this was, as the government admitted, "somewhat outside legality." But, said Adenauer, "whether Ahlers was arrested in Málaga or Hamburg does not bother me much," and he suggested blandly that procedural flaws in the case could always be investigated afterward...
...judges' decision was unanimous and lopsided. Dressed in pajamalike native costumes, half a dozen Nigerians swarmed through the ropes to congratulate New Champion Tiger, while Manager Marv Jenson led the battered ex-champ sadly out of the ring. Afterward came the expected talk of a rematch-but Fullmer was not so sure. "If I feel like I can't take him," he said, "there won't be one." And he added: "You can't be sorry when you get beat by a better...