Word: brandts
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Torchlight Serenade. It was Erhard's first independent campaign since he took over as Chancellor from Konrad Adenauer, and he scored an impressive personal victory over West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Observers had wondered whether Onkel Ludwig's earnest, professorial platform style might not bore the voters. As it turned out, they seemed to lap it up. On election night, 60 teen-agers dropped around to serenade him by the light of torches and a pale quarter-moon. The tune was his campaign song...
...away, at S.P.D. headquarters, a tired, peaked Willy Brandt was already stepping before the TV cameras to concede defeat. "The main-reason for the outcome," said he, "is that in wide areas we have not succeeded in removing prejudices and familiarizing people with our programs." For Willy, that failure meant the end of a national career. Though he won a greater share of the vote for his party than any Socialist had ever done before, Brandt fell far short of winning a role in 'the government as part of a "grand coalition." Two days after the election, Brandt announced...
Many a German, of course, would agree with Adenauer, and in a way the C.D.U. was cannily working both sides of the street. But the S.P.D. could also make a little political capital out of Adenauer's blast, insisting that it showed a split in C.D.U. ranks. Brandt is not exactly a magnetic speaker, but he was able to silence one heckler-packed audience in Heidelberg by stepping up to the mike and declaring, "Dear friends and opponents, so that the rest of us will know where we are, will the opponents please divide into those...
Something for Everyone. Brandt's campaign-like Ludwig Erhard's-has been distinctly low key so far, He is currently riding around on a campaign train that, by election time, will have traveled 12,500 miles; he will have visited 44 major cities and delivered no fewer than 75 speeches and 250 curbside pep talks. He has stuck largely to such main issues as prices, education, and health-avoiding rough personal attacks on his opponent...
That task fell to Brandt's shadow Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, 46. At a rally for 25,000 in Dortmund, Schmidt heaped scorn on Erhard. "One reads his campaign literature," cried Schmidt. "Me, me, me, I, I, I. The psychologists call this overcompensation of one's own complexes." To roars of applause and whistles, he went on, "The man has absolutely no powers of decision. The symbol on Herr Erhard's coat of arms should not be a cigar but a shaking pudding...