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...BISMARCK by Werner Richter. 420 pages. Putnam...
...chub-cheeked country boy, with sly blue eyes, reddish-blond hair and a face, as he described it, "like a young girl with a bit of a moustache." Such was the appearance of the greatest German of his time. Otto von Bismarck made Prussia dominant in Germany and Germany dominant in Europe. He has inspired a shelf of biographies but remains essentially a riddle. Was he a selfless hero or a scheming tyrant...
North Dakota: Democrat Quentin N. Burdick, 56, is so worried about G.O.P. Challenger Thomas Kleppe, 45, the aggressive ex-mayor of Bismarck, that he left Washington well before Congress adjourned to start campaigning. But he is the favorite, might get extra mileage from popular Democratic Governor William Guy's coattails...
...different kind of campaign is taking place across the Pacific. There, the natives of the Bismarck Archipelago don't want to elect Lyndon Johnson-they want...
German nationalization began with Bismarck, continued through the Weimar Republic and reached its climax in the Third Reich, which organized such huge enterprises as Volkswagen and the Salzgitter steelmaking complex to equip the army. Not a single firm has been nationalized since the war under the Christian Democrats. But still left over from the old days is a $2.5 billion government stake in companies that account for 40% of West Germany's iron ore production, 70% of aluminum, 60% of electricity and 80% of soft coal. In 1959 the government finally sold off to 216,000 German buyers...