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...likens the town's behavior to that of a family with a terminally ill patient: "First there's denial; then anger, depression, hostility; then bargaining; and finally acceptance." In Limbo. Silver Bay's children have responded with anger and disruptiveness. Says Assistant School Superintendent Elmer Frahm, 45: "We see many more students smoking, drinking, using drugs, and there's a lot more vandalism too." The Reserve Mining case has been hanging over Silver Bay for eight years. Says Mayor Melvin Koepke, a machinist at Reserve's $350 million lakeside plant: "It's like living...
Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, the illegitimate son of a Liibeck shopgirl, he was raised by his grandfather to be a fervent blue-collar socialist. In 1933, to escape arrest by the Gestapo, he changed his name to Willy Brandt and fled to Scandinavia. In Norway and Sweden, his doctrinaire socialism was mellowed by experience of the more pragmatic Scandinavian brand...
...rivalry between the Nazis and Socialists spilled over into bloody street battles that erupted all over Germany. In the Baltic seaport of Liibeck, the Nazis met a tough opponent in a husky, square-jawed youth named Herbert Karl Frahm, a member of the Socialist youth club. The son of an unmarried shopgirl whose lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship...
...Where, in an unworthy blow, he referred to his opponent as "Herr Brandt, alias Frahm" a reference to the Berlin mayor's illegitimate birth...
Early Life. Born with the name of Herbert Frahm, on Dec. 18, 1913, the son of an unskilled laborer in the German Baltic port of Lübeck. At 17 joined the Socialist Party, fought against Nazis in street brawls. In 1933 fled on a fishing smack to Norway (where he had distant relatives), one leap ahead of Hitler's Gestapo...