Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian Democratic setback is the refusal of the aged (86) Chancellor to step down (he has agreed to do so some time before the end of next year) and arrange for his successor, most likely Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. When this was pointed out to him last week, der Alte did not even deign to reply. He only smiled...
...year KLM showed a loss of $21 million, the biggest in its 42-year history. This year, with losses up to $11 million in the first quarter alone, KLM's prospects look worse. Declaring that "our existence as a major airline is at stake," KLM President Ernst van der Beugel recently announced to his 17,300 employees plans to cut costs by 13%-largely by lopping 2,000 people off the payroll. This week the Dutch Parliament will take up Van der Beugel's desperate request for a government guarantee of $104 million in new bank loans...
Though Van der Beugel will probably get the money, his appeal is KLM's biggest break yet with its tradition of stubborn independence. An even greater break may be in the making. Four years ago, the principal Common Market airlines-Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia and Belgium's Sabena-began to discuss pooling of their resources in a European Air Union in order to compete more effectively with Pan Am, TWA, and other international lines. KLM walked out after the first meetings in disgust at its proposed share of the combined revenues. But Dutch parliamentarians are unlikely...
...Days. There was nothing perfunctory about Rusk's mission to Bonn where crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer needed some buttering up after his angry May quarrel with Washington over the negotiations with Russia. Rusk fairly smothered der Alte with kind words. "You never heard such flattery." said one witness at the first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast...
...death in his long negotiations with the Russians; Adenauer might argue that his own veto of possible concessions had forced Moscow to back down. It was clear that the Chancellor was still adamantly opposed to discussion of an international authority to control Berlin's access routes. Said der Alte, "As I have told you before, the Soviets will give you nothing on major points, and only bargain in order to get concessions on minor points...