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...predecessor, who proclaimed last year that "the postwar era is over"?but failed to realize that his time had passed with it. Only a year after winning for himself and his party a major election victory, Erhard was unceremoniously pushed offstage in bitter political fighting that produced a five-week crisis in West Germany's government. When he left the Bundestag and took his leave of the Palais Schaumburg, where for three years he had ruled as Chancellor, Erhard was a lonely and dejected figure. No such emotions troubled flinty old Konrad Adenauer, Germany's first postwar Chancellor...
...Billy Graham; he has at one time or another handed the palm to New York, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and even Boston. Clearly though, it is swinging London that rates the special concern of the glowing-eyed evangelist, and last week he was back there to begin a five-week crusade, his second in twelve years...
...convenient setup for employers who had been able to play off one against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike involving 15 northern California painters' locals. The upshot: a settlement giving the area's painters $6.51 hourly in pay and fringe benefits, highest scale...
...military cost of the pause will run high. Apart from the Communists' gains in manpower and materiel during the five-week interval, the President's long and agonizing deliberations over
...first U.S. orchestra to visit Russia in six years, the Clevelanders were feted and fawned upon. In Moscow, at the opening of the five-week tour, the audience summoned Conductor George Szell back for 20 curtain calls and four encores, rhythmically clapping and chanting "Glory! . . . bravo! . . thanks!" They relented only when Szell ordered his 107 musicians off the stage...