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...generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them on his credo: "There will always be problems. They are to be solved, and we will solve them...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...
...makes the team. He still has the appetite of the growing boy he is. A small race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male. Secretariat is what track people call a "good doer." He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply of hay on which he nibbles almost constantly...
Ofcourse I'm sure I'm not doing the most good I could be doing for other people. But I don't so much have the proprietary view of "people out there" as possible patrons of my services--that one not very oppressed must be a full-time doer of good. What little I know I am happy to share, but I no longer have earth-shaking ministrations to purvey. You wanna know about rutabagas, I'll tell you about rutabagas. You wanna know about how to make a correct revolution...
...wish to express my great delight in reading about Construction Worker Tom Dowd's "good buck"-$94,000 a year [Sept. 181. Here is a story of a doer, a worker, a builder who can work skillfully with his hands if need be. Never mind the comments like sky-high paychecks, outrageous, grossly inflated, needless expense...