Word: brandts
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Since his election last year as Chancellor of West Germany, ruggedly handsome Willy Brandt has been hailed as one of Western Europe's most charismatic and skillful statesmen. Last week he lived up to his reputation. The longtime Socialist mayor of West Berlin flew into Washington for two days of talks with President Nixon and made a persuasive case for continued U.S. support of his efforts to ease cold-war tensions. He also assured himself of a role in any further discussions about the future of the Continent...
...Brandt spent the early part of the week inspecting West German troops training with U.S. forces in Texas. Tanned by the Texas sun and rested after 2½ days in the seclusion of Camp David, Brandt alighted from a blue Mercedes with his attractive Norwegian wife Rut, to be greeted on the White House lawn by President Nixon. Cannons boomed out a 16-gun salute, and the red-jacketed Marine band struck up the traditional Deutschlandlied. The Brandts were also feted at a gala White House dinner and entertained by the redoubtable Pearl Bailey. To the tune of Hello, Dolly...
...Polish government regularly attacked the map as a provocation, but a Munich newspaper more accurately described it as "half masochism and half revanchism." But as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt embarked upon his Ostpolitik, which aims at better relations with Bonn's eastern neighbors, the map became an embarrassment...
...round of politics. Naturally, the last thing that Germans expect of a writer is that he will paint a rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De" (for Social Democratic Party) on the side of a secondhand Volkswagen bus and vulgarly, vulgarly bounce thousands of miles through West Germany campaigning for Willy Brandt. Last summer Grass did just that...
...know you're really in politics." Political campaigns are also distracting?as Norman Mailer, the one major writer in the U.S. whose recent course seems to parallel Grass's, recently found out. There are critics who say that Grass will turn from writing to action for good if Willy Brandt should offer him a big enough job in the new government. Grass denies that. As proof, he holds up not only his work in progress but a completed body of writing, some of it done during his political period in the past five years, that has placed him beyond Mailer...