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Privately Adenauer looks forward to a summit, where no Germans will be represented, with extreme nervousness. Fortnight ago he cryptically suggested that Germany might yet have to make more sacrifices in order to complete "the liquidation of the effects of World War II." What Adenauer fears is that the West may agree to some erosion of its position in West Berlin and may, at least by implication, accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe as legitimate. The simple French position is that to renegotiate on Berlin is to call into question the West's existing right to be there...
...Detroit fortnight ago to demonstrate some automated post office equipment, onetime Michigan Boss Summerfield decided to punch a few political buttons. At a fund-raising meeting of top Republicans at the Detroit Club, he unfolded his plan for restoring party amity. Oust liberal State Chairman Lawrence Lindemer, said Summerfield, and the depleted party treasury will soon be overflowing. "Nothing doing," exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party...
After that, using the name Stefan Popel, Bandera lived with his wife and three children in Munich, protected constantly by bodyguards. Fortnight ago. leaving his modest apartment, he went back upstairs for something he had forgotten, leaving his bodyguard waiting in the street. A moment later there was a cry, and neighbors found him lying with a broken neck on the stair landing. An autopsy disclosed the real cause of death: cyanide...
...past fortnight, the networks have scrubbed four quiz shows worth an estimated $20 million in sponsors' fees-$5,000,000 each for NBC's Tic Tac Dough and CBS's Name That Tune, Big Payoff, Top Dollar. The number of quiz-panel-contest shows that survived was still 13 at week's end. If they are dropped too, the total loss in sponsors' fees will bulge to a bank-breaking $80 million...
...attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...