Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patriotic Duty." Böll, Johnson and Grass clearly do not fit into any neat school of literature. Böll is a Christian humanist. Grass is a compassionate anarchist. Johnson is a Marx-influenced socialist who hates the Communist Party. What they and the other Group 47 writers most closely resemble is a kind of self-elected national conscience for Germany. Especially among the younger members, the appearance of anything or anyone that recalls the advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel...
Adenauer had to promise that he would step down from office next September and tacitly accept as next Chancellor Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the creator of Germany's economic miracle, whom der Alte, normally a just and magnanimous man, has seen fit to block, deride and ridicule. Adenauer's own Christian Democratic party (C.D.U.) is disgruntled because four of its oldtimers were dropped from the Cabinet and only learned of their demise from newsmen or by abrupt announcement in the party caucus; Adenauer had not bothered to consult them. West Berliners are furious because Berliner Ernst Lemmer was dropped...
Neither Chris Ohiri nor Art Doten even dressed for the meet. Coach Bill McCurdy didn't bother to keep Aggregy Awori around for the one mile relay and in a fit of generosity gave the event...
...most conservative housewife. Raspberry silk, in the dank gloom of December, is somehow a good deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...
...Studebaker's dynamic President Sherwood Egbert, 42. Though initial orders suggest that Studebaker could well sell 15,000 1963 Avantis, production has been held to fewer than 500 a month by the difficulties of getting the various parts of the car's fiber-glass body to fit snugly together. Egbert hopes soon to open an Avanti body assembly line in South Bend so as not to have to rely solely on an outside supplier to both make and assemble the body. Meantime, Studebaker dealers are swamped with Avanti orders they cannot fill...