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Eighteen months ago, when he moved in as president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 44, looked like a bright hope. A brilliant ex-civil servant who had held the top career post in the Dutch Foreign Office, he appeared to have both the drive and diplomacy to steer the world's fourth-largest international airline deftly through the financial perils of the jet age. Last week, with an abruptness that stunned the aviation industry, Van der Beugel (pronounced van dare Bur-gel) resigned his job and checked into...
...Franciscus den Hollander, former boss of the Dutch railroads, took over. In the first 24 hours of Den Hollander's regime, three longtime executive vice-presidents resigned. The KLM board is expected to go outside the company to find a new president, but with the example of able Ernst van der Beugel fresh in everyone's mind, the search might prove hard...
...dominance in an overcrowded field. Tiny Denmark, only half the size of Maine and no more populous than North Carolina, fields no less than 80 dailies. But in two centuries, Tidende has become an unbreakable habit. On its circulation lists are descendants of subscribers originally signed up by Ernst Berling. In Copenhagen, a city of 1,250,000, the seven papers that compete with Tidende's three -which include B.T., a tabloid, and the evening Berlingske Aftenavis-together muster a circulation barely matching the Tidende group...
...parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind. It smiles when it speaks...
...life and death as few other religions do. Says Theologian Vorgrimler: "Real religion requires that God come close to man?and there Christianity has the most radical answers, by teaching that God has become man himself. This is a melting together of God and the world." German Marxist Philosopher Ernst Bloch admits: "Christianity is still a light shining in the darkness, and the light is stronger...