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...years since he took command of the Christian Democratic Union and the nation from Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard has been widely accused of uninspired leadership. Yet when he formally kicked off his first campaign for office this week at a rally in Dortmund's vast Westfalenhalle, he appeared the man most likely to succeed when the nation goes to the polls on Sept...
...blamed for the crimes or the mistaken beliefs of its elders. But what does youth believe in? Since 3,078,000 Germans born between 1940 and 1944 will be eligible to vote for the first time next fall in what seems likely to be a close election, both Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democrats and Willy Brandt's Social Democrats would love to know. Last week their strategists were poring over the 200-page digest of a report on German youth prepared by the Ministry of Family Affairs. Among the report's conclusions...
There was no clear advantage for either Erhard's C.D.U. or Brandt's S.P.D. in the latter statistics, since both are all for rearmament, NATO and a reunified Germany. But the politicians took note of the fact that two-thirds of today's youth are opposed to joining any party. And Socialist strategists were cheered by their findings that youthful voters favor the Social Democrats by a slender (4-5%) margin, partly because young intellectuals, such as Novelist Gunter Grass, have been campaigning for it (TIME, July 23), but mainly because the S.P.D. has been the underdog...
...literature, Mohn brought out volumes with mass appeal from encyclopedias to schmalz. Applications rolled in-80% of them from young people who had never before read books outside of school. Mohn now has four clubs for books and records, and a membership of 3,200,000, including Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. This year he will put out 22 million books and write up sales of some $80 million. (The U.S.'s largest book publisher, Crowell-Collier-Macmillan, last year had sales of $113 million...
...Maker Hans Werner Richter, chortled that the "Chancellor's lack of self-control is shocking." "Embarrassing, embarrassing," clucked Writer Heinrich Boll. Der Dicke was unrepentant, but political aides with an eye out for his electoral image prevailed on the Chancellor to issue a clarification. A spokesman declared that Erhard's statements did not mean that he "disassociates himself from novelists and writers or the world of intellect as such," but were only a criticism of "polemic campaign contributions and direct attacks...