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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt may be in the market for a new gagwriter. During a tour of an army camp, Schmidt reportedly cracked a creaky old World War II joke about Italian tanks having five gears, one forward and four reverse. When Die Welt printed the Chancellor's jape, the Italian government was not amused. Schmidt's aides promptly reached for their own reverse gears. Accepting German denials that Schmidt had ever made the remark, the Italian embassy in Bonn declared the case closed. "After all," an official observed diplomatically, "Germany and Italy are NATO allies...
...former president of the Ford Foundation, world's largest, most influential, philanthropic trust; in Winter Park, Fla. The lanky native of Lincoln, Neb., became the first president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served from 1940 to 1952. For the next four years he was chancellor of New York University and helped to unify its many schools and divisions before joining Ford in 1956. Under Heald, grants to education were nearly 50% of the $1.75 billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should provide venture capital for innovative...
Iolanthe. Gilbert and Sullivan satirize the House of Lords with some of their wittiest lyrics and catchiest music, including the great patter number "The Lord Chancellor's Song." Tom Fuller, a second-year law student who's played G & S heroes from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo in the past few years, is making his directorial debut If this show is up to the standard of past G & S productions, it may well be the highlight of the winter theater season. Buy your tickets now; by next week they'll be impossible to come by. At the Agassiz, December...
After that rousing curtain raiser, Schmidt had the convention in his lap. In a conciliatory speech full of profuse praise for Brandt, the Chancellor reassured the 436 delegates that his government was doing everything possible to advance the party's aims, within the limitations of the coalition. The congress voted down a laundry list of Jusos resolutions calling for government control of industrial investments, nationalization of key industries and banks, a $1,953 limitation on monthly personal incomes and a hefty "luxury" tax on a wide variety of consumer goods...
Brandt and Schmidt were re-elected to their party posts, with 407 votes each. This was nothing short of a triumph for Schmidt, who in 1973 had received only 286 votes for vice-chairman. The Chancellor can now go into the election campaign with firm assurance that his party is behind...