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...West Germany's Minister of Defense, beefy, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been a vigorous foe of Prussianism. Whenever the officers of West Germany's new, "democratic" army showed any signs of reverting to the autocratic traditions of the Junkers, Bavarian-born Minister Strauss cracked down hard-and thereby won the applause of most of his countrymen. But last week Franz Josef Strauss was learning firsthand the full depth of West Germans' postwar distaste for jack-in-office arrogance...
...enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably. he sat in his cockpit eating an apple as a gesture of contempt for his foe, almost invariably evaded his pursuer before the apple was eaten...
...Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge University gave him an LL.D., its orator called him "navigatorum principem, tempestatum hostiumque irrisorem" -prince of navigators and scorner of danger, from both storm and foe...
Nine Brothers. The amateur editor had picked a formidable foe. Tied to the state organization of Senator Harry Byrd, the Kellam machine was formed by nine brothers, headed by Sidney Kellam, longtime county treasurer, and Floyd Kellam, circuit judge in the area, with the power to appoint various commissions...
Citation: "Samaritan to the suffering, inveterate foe to all famine . . . he has mightily worked, carrying the benison of milk and bread to . . . the world's undernourished children...