Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given handsome, soft-spoken Bob White fewer problems than the P-51 he flew in World War II. Early in 1945, when only 20. White led a squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy and jumped. I felt the parachute shock an instant...
...Bavarians are a clannish lot, devoted to their native soil. One Bavarian member of the federal Bundestag, Socialist Waldemar von Knoringen, became so despondent in Bonn - 265 miles from home - that he would dial long-distance just to hear the operator's tape-recorded voice say "Munich, Munich, Munich...
...Also Bavarian, but of another breed, is West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 46, who has always seemed willing to trade Munich for Bonn - and who, in the view of his detractors, had his eye on the Palais Schaumburg, residence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...million on contracts to build housing for U.S. military personnel. A special Bundestag commission cleared Strauss of any dishonesty, but questioned his prudence in having written letters supporting promoters of the scheme. In his time of troubles. Christian Democratic Party leaders, who have little affection for the burly, baroque Bavarian, were notably restrained in backing him. "I've worked day and night for six years," Strauss complained to friends, "and what are the thanks? I've only made myself unloved...
Memory Fades. A showdown was bound to come, and last week Strauss proved that if he was not loved, at least he was needed. The autonomous Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. was split between a conservative Catholic wing and a liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...