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...save Germany?and Christianity? from the Red Peril. In 1933?the year that Hitler was elected Reich Chancello ?Kurt Kiesinger became a member of the Nazi Party. It took only a year for Kiesinger to realize that he could not hope to influence developments within Hitler's increasingly brutal movement. For a time he considered emigrating to Brazil, but he had no money for a transatlantic move. So he stayed on in Berlin, tutored law students and practiced law. From then on, he shied away from any further contact with the Nazis, refusing to join the Nazi lawyers' guild...
...daily campaigning in the 1964 and 1966 elections, making ten to a dozen speeches a day in town after town. When Labor won in 1964, Brown was given the Department of Economic Affairs, quickly proved the most effective reorganizer the department had seen in years. He was brutal, ruthless and demanding-but he did what had to be done. He developed Labor's roundly applauded "National Plan" for growth, only to see it shelved by the sterling crisis. He nearly quit over Wilson's stiff price and income controls, yet his labor-management spadework was largely responsible...
...Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights demonstrations, was elected sheriff over Incumbent Jim Clark, whose brutal treatment of Negroes shocked the nation...
...egalitarian vision and brutal controls, Communism is still basically an economic philosophy. Because of that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...
Substitute for Subsidies. Impact on the managers is bound to be brutal. "It is much harder [under the new system] to estimate future capital-goods needs...