Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formation soon of a new C.D.U.-F.D.P. government under Adenauer, 85. Ludwig Erhard, Adenauer's Minister of Economics for the past twelve years, is expected to retain his post, while Erich Mende will stay out of the Cabinet to continue serving as chairman of the F.D.P. When der Alte finally relinquishes his post (he refuses to set a date), Erhard will probably step up to the chancellorship, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss move to the Foreign Ministry and Mende into Defense...
...finally scuttled the Old Chancellor. Angrily, Konrad Adenauer vented his rage on campaign officials, the Socialists, the U.S. (for not allowing him to accompany Lyndon Johnson to Berlin, which would have been great campaign publicity). When he announced a press conference for noon, friends and foes alike guessed that der Alte was about to step down. Instead, the Old Fox left no doubt that in West Germany it was still Anno Adenauer...
...Coalition. Dissatisfactions go deeper than der Alte cared to admit. Some critics feel that so long a reign as his may stifle their young democracy. The Socialists captured a high percentage of the country's first-time voters, while the Free Democrats winkled off a sizable number of the middle-class urban voters who admire Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard as the engineer of prosperity and vehemently resent Adenauer's underhand attempts to keep their hero in the shadows. Said a party official: "Plenty of our voters felt that in voting for us they were voting against Adenauer...
...tries to rule with a minority government. Moving in for what he hoped would be the kill, wily Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took to TV to announce that his own 50-man Bavarian wing of the party-which fared respectably at the polls-had decided that der Alte should be succeeded by Erhard. Strauss's critics say that he hopes Erhard will serve briefly as transitional Chancellor, perform badly in foreign affairs, and thus clear the way for Strauss himself...
STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...