Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes. "I could gauge distances fairly well, because I knew the area intimately." Der Alte hit the dirt, and survived to become West Germany's first postwar Chancellor. His keen vision paid off well in both situations...
...laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously to a decision once taken, and unlikely to be deflected from it by criticism." A later volume of Adenauer's memoirs will deal with Dwight Eisenhower...
...gallery has built a magnifying glass in the showcase; so costly is it that the work was auctioned last March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which also bears the seal of Prussia's former ruler Frederick the Great on the back, is owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in Switzerland...
...assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch anti-Nazi in wartime and a champion of Israel since then. "If good will is not recognized," he gravely told guests at Eshkol's home, "then no good can be created...
...newsmagazine format. Italy's L'Espresso plans to make the change this year, and Italy's Vita, a newsmagazine with a disproportionate emphasis on political exposes and movie queens, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. Granddaddy of them all, of course, is West Germany's aggressive Der Spiegel, which in 20 years has built circulation to a solid...