Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second City. Thanks largely to its improved surroundings, the university has begun again to play its proper part in Chicago's vibrant cultural climate. In the past, that climate had nurtured the talents of such innovators as Sullivan, Wright and Mies van der Rohe, Frank Norris (The Octopus), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio), Carl Sandburg, James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan), and the "Chicago School" of jazz. Today, Chicago is characteristically self-conscious about its "second city'' creativity, even though young people like Shelley Berman. Negro Dick Gregory, Bob Newhart and Nichols & May have all sparked new trends...
...dinner meeting of the foreign press in Bonn. Whose stupidity? "I believe these things have been committed not only by Britain but by others as well," he sighed. Was any of it committed on the River Seine? asked a reporter. "I deliberately have not mentioned any names," retorted der Alte. "Whoever fits the coat should wear...
...heir-apparent is still avuncular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, architect of the West German economic boom, and the most popular choice among West German voters. One Cabinet minister guesses that Erhard also commands the loyalty of 60% of C.D.U. politicians. But Erhard still has one formidable enemy-der Alte himself who has conducted a petulant feud with paunchy "Uncle Ludwig." Adenauer's influence is still great, and last week the field was still wide open with half a dozen other candidates, led by Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, to be considered. Whom would der Alte prefer...
...dropped 25%. There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent focuses on the government's clumsy "treason" crackdown on the newsmagazine Der Spiegel last November, and more important, on the stubborn refusal of Adenauer to clear the way for his own retirement and choice of a new C.D.U. leader...
With new national elections due in 1965, it is none too early for the Christian Democrats to start building up a new candidate, whether he turns out to be Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, the fast-rising Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, or one of the party's dark horses. As for a Socialist candidate for the chancellorship, Willy Brandt, who was beaten once by Adenauer, was sure to be it again. And Willy was willing. "My work might be more needed elsewhere," he said...