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...economics fascinated him. From Nurnberg's Academy for Economics and Sociology, he went on to do graduate work at Frankfurt University, where he became a protege of famed economist Franz Oppenheimer, a leading exponent of free enterprise. A dedicated mountaineer, Oppenheimer once took Erhard on a climb in the Alps. There, atop Mount Piz Corvatsch (11,339 ft.), the professor asked his student one final question about economics and forthwith an nounced that young Erhard had passed his Ph.D. examination. Chuckled Oppenheimer: "You are now the highest doctor on earth...
...profit climb has continued because of the happy conjunction of strong demand, stable costs and increased productivity-and economists are as pleased about it as executives. But their optimism was somewhat tempered last week by uneven reports on the economy's performance in August: though personal income rose to a record annual rate of $465 billion, manufacturers' new orders slid 2%, and industrial production fell a point to 125.6% of the 1957-59 average-due largely to the auto industry's shutdown for model changeovers. Washington's experts expect that production will pick up speed with...
...Pilot Gary Powers was shot down, the U-2 flew at will over the Soviet Union, brought back miles of film showing target areas, defenses, terrain, mountains, lakes, forests. In all that time, Soviet MIG pilots swarmed helplessly below. On at least one occasion, a Soviet pilot, straining to climb to within U-2 range, radioed, "We kill, Yank!" And the U-2 pilot replied: "Okay, try it!" The pilot was safe in his dare...
...address a conference on wildlife preservation, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 43, who gets a boot out of barging around mountains (two years ago he loped up Japan's 12,388-ft. Mount Fuji), now was set on 19,317-ft. Mount Kilimanjaro. "This is not a dangerous climb, just a long, hard walk," said Stew, and up he went casually clad in climbing pants, sports shirt and sweater. That was a bit skimpy for the hidden throes of Kilimanjaro-one seasoned mountaineer in the party collapsed from the altitude-but puffing and wheezing, Udall hauled himself onto the summit...
...black and grey Bentley snaked south out of Los Angeles along the Santa Ana Freeway, shook free of the traffic, and began to climb fast on a mountain road through the open country. At the wheel was a shapely brunette beauty?secretary, assistant and part-time chauffeur to the man in the back seat listening to Mantovani on a built-in stereophonic tape recorder. The car stopped on the mountaintop, where a friend was waiting; the man got out, a trim 6 feet with heavy-lidded blue eyes and an actor's dash. The wind riffled his wavy, iron-grey...