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...first hundred pages. Author Knef has a Hitlerian horror story to tell. At 19, politically no more sophisticated than any other shoemaker's daughter, the little cow jumped over the moon for an all-out Nazi film director named Ewald von Demandowsky. When the Russians reached Berlin, Hilde wangled a machine gun and some grenades and followed him to the front disguised as a soldier. Her account of what happened is a phantasmagoric exercise in battle reportage...
...thinned out its work force by 600 men, and the Penn Central, with its largest single customer out of operation, has been affected "seriously" and cut back some of its operations. Several of the advertising agencies that handle G.M. accounts have decreed pay slashes. Chevrolet's agency, Campbell-Ewald, for instance, has imposed reductions ranging from 10% for everyone making less than $10,000 a year to 15% for staffers earning between $10,000 and $25,000, and 25% for those earning more...
...findings show that hypochondria, or "high body concern," one of the most common neuroses of the elderly, can often be cured. According to Dr. Ewald Busse, director of the Duke study center, if a man's family "keeps criticizing him unjustly, makes him feel uncomfortable, unwanted, he may retreat into an imaginary illness as a way of saying, 'Don't make things harder...
...total integration of the city's 46,000 students, 33% of whom are black. The scheme, which included the busing of 16,700 students, was backed by more than 60 local civic groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Junior League. It was hailed by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist as "a beacon for the rest of the country." Three days later, amid rising national agitation over integration, the board met publicly and killed the project by a 3-to-2 vote...
...fact, Humphrey bought the land in 1955 for $200 from a longtime friend, Ray Ewald, a dairy owner who happens to be a Republican. What that land was really worth remains debatable. Ewald's brother contends it could scarcely have commanded $100; the county assessor put the value appreciably higher. Three years before the deal, Ewald's dairy had been involved in an antitrust case along with several other dairies and a union. Their plea was nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this...