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...American committee has also been unable to duplicate the extensive variety of economic seminars which European countries hold toward the end of the summer. Created solely for AIESEC trainees, the seminars last for about ten days, and have featured such luminaries as Ludwig Erhard, the German Economics minister. They usually treat such problems as European economic integration and the problems of rapid industrialization...
...cigars (he still chews on 20 a day, but lights up less often), going early to bed, and seeing a steady stream of politicians of all parties at his Ministry of Economics office. More eager to hear their views than to make controversial pronouncements of his own, Ludwig Erhard seldom ventured more than a grunted "Ah, yes, Herr Minister, so I hear. Please tell me more...
...Erhard is anxious to make as few Cabinet changes as possible when he takes office on Oct. 16. He plans to install Erich Mende, leader of the coalition Free Democratic Party, as Vice Chancellor and Science Minister...
...changeover from Adenauer, a staunch Roman Catholic, to Erhard, a Protestant, will upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...
Policies of Motion. Erhard, whose past humiliations at the hands of Adenauer earned him the scornful nickname Rubber Lion, was being so distant with the press, and was handling importunate visitors with such quiet reserve that he was being called a new name: the Sphinx of Tegernsee. He was even able to grit his teeth and remain silent when Konrad Adenauer outlined for top officials a view of Europe's future that was almost identical with Charles de Gualle's vision of a French-led association of states...