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Democracy appears to have worked well in West Germany since the war; despite fierce inter-party conflict Adenauer's government has maintained an aura of respectability and competence. Yet within the last two weeks this aura has been tarnished by "die Spiegelaffaire," a sequence of events which has brought to the surface the darker currents in German political life...
...good a student and as pleasant a person as Archie if not more so. He is also one of the best football players in the League. But, Grana, who makes as many contributions to the team with his superb blocking as with his ball carrying, lacks the celebrity aura...
Despite the overall aura of a rally-round-the-flag spirit, there remained some nagging doubts about the timing of the blockade decision, coming as it did just two weeks before the elections. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee angrily charged that the timing was political and aimed at preventing a Democratic debacle...
...that it will be invited to supply talent and material and to bid on jobs. In addition, there are ''institutional" ads-such as the Container Corp. of America's series on "Great Ideas of Western Man''-by which companies aim to create an aura of progressiveness in order to recruit customers, stockholders or employees...
...current program gives us Miss Hayes and Mr. Evans (both a bit insecure in their lines on opening night) trying vainly to recapture the aura of their 1940 production of Twelfth Night together. It suggests nothing so much as the U.S.S. Caine's Captain Queeg trying to relive his triumphal solution of the bygone cheese theft when a quart of fresh Strawberries was unaccounted for. "Shakespeare Revisited" is Shakespeare recidivous...