Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...
...Such is the man who may hold the balance of power after next autumn's elections. Will his Free Democrats deal with the Socialists or the Christian Democrats? Presumably the Christian Democrats would have to retire Adenauer before Maier would sign with them. The Socialists would have to subdue their economic radicalism to get his support. Which way he will lean he will not say. Said Reinhold Maier last week: "One says of the hunter that he doesn't always tell the truth after the hunt. Of the politician one says that he doesn't always tell...
...fellow crusaders are swarming in a "saturation campaign" designed to test the chances of evangelizing the segment of Britain that Billy Graham largely failed to reach-the workers. Potter's plan is not to rack up as many "decisions for Christ" as possible, but to stimulate discussion along Christian lines, eventually organize "Christian cells in the factories-Communism in reverse...
...teach a Communist tactician. His first meeting left him cold, but later, when he attended the baptism of a friend whom Graham had converted, Potter was deeply moved. At a Communist mass meeting in Reading Market Square, Potter turned Red faces redder with the announcement that he had turned Christian and left the party. He was not going to attack the Communists, he explained; he was going to move to the positive side and Breach Christianity...
...Potter quit his factory job, joined an evangelical group called the Workers' Christian Fellowship. Soon, he averaged 12,000 miles and 400 speeches a year. During his travels he met a young Anglican minister called Bruce Reed who was shepherding study and prayer groups of Graham-converted university students...