Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foretaste. Behind this startling about-face stretched a recent history of unaccustomed vacillation. Fearful that popular Socialist Carlo Schmid might win the presidential elections scheduled for July 1, Christian Democrat Adenauer three months ago tried to press his own party's presidential nomination on pudgy, cigar-chomping Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the "engineer of the German economic miracle." When Erhard, with the support of Christian Democratic backbenchers, refused to let himself be kicked upstairs, it marked the first successful defiance of Adenauer in his own party...
...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...
Almost seven years after he was booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...
...Cologne friend, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, gently explained how in big business a corporation president, by becoming board chairman, sloughs off the daily burden while overseeing the continuity of policy. Adenauer himself badly wanted a strong presidential candidate to head off the "catastrophic" possibility that a Socialist (the popular Carlo Schmid) might win the office. And Adenauer was also swayed by fears that his allies might be preparing to undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain...
...respected German Socialist leaders, Carlo Schmid and Fritz Erler, returned from Moscow last week, having learned for all their "flexibility," that the Russians had their own definitions of "the possibilities of reducing tensions." Schmid and Erler talked for three hours with Khrushchev. Afterwards, Khrushchev indicated that Socialists might be easier to get along with than Konrad Adenauer. But Socialist hints that they would be willing to take West Germany out of NATO got no response from Khrushchev. Waving a stubby finger at the two Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification...