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Schumacher dragged himself from a sickbed to harangue the southwest voters by radio. Adenauer's Housing Minister Eberhard Wildermuth died of a heart attack in Tübingen after strenuously pleading the government's cause. From ancient Heidelberg to the Black Forest and all through the area known principally for its vacation resorts, its cuckoo clocks and its conservative politics, other leading ministers and oppositionists campaigned tirelessly...
...chief of staff to Field Marshal Rommel in France, later imprisoned for complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, and liberated by the French army. A straight-backed man who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (after the war he taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is the big military brain of revived West Germany. In his postwar memoirs (Invasion 1944), he showed a familiar German military rationalization-that the army would have won if it had not been stabbed in the back (in this case by Hitler). But Speidel, an easy, convincing debater...
Died. Elizabeth Duncan, 77, eccentric, bang-haired dance instructor and elder sister of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan; of a heart ailment; in Tübingen, Germany. Elizabeth said that she picked up her "dance of life" theory (body movements keyed to the laws of nature) from the California redwoods and the sea lions at San Francisco...
...plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...
...precarious was the enemy situation south of the Moselle that front correspondents foresaw Eisenhower's armies coming up to the Rhine from Bingen to Strasbourg without much delay. German industrial towns of the west bank (Mainz, Worms, Ludwigshafen) would be put out of action, and some on or near the east bank (Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe) would be brought under artillery fire. And the Nazis would go cross-eyed watching the whole 800-mile stretch of the Rhine from Switzerland to The Netherlands...