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...Rhein-Main, Sembach and Ramstein airbases. As they moved down from the ramps, they were steered straight onto chow lines, where cooks from the German-based U.S. Seventh Army had a total of 20,000 piping-hot steaks and tons of French fries ready. At Rhein-Main, outside Frankfurt, one mess sergeant baked a 200-lb. cake in the shape of a tank...
...East out of curiosity, they now go for the snob appeal of a Black Sea tan, or simply for fun on the cheap. Three weeks at Czechoslovakia's elegant spas of Carlsbad or Marienbad cost Westerners $125 to $175, and a fortnight's all-expense tour from Frankfurt to Bulgaria's bikini beaches starts...
...Bonn press predicted that De Gaulle would try to whip the Germans into line in case they had got too friendly toward the U.S. He was not as crude as that. But he had been stung by Kennedy's Frankfurt speech about Atlantic unity (although dismissing it as "salade, salade, salade"), and De Gaulle obviously wanted to find out in Bonn if the Germans had been sufficiently impressed by it to move away from the Franco-German alliance. Answer: the Germans were just about standing still. They chided De Gaulle and his top ministers for the announced withdrawal...
...Wave. When he stepped down from his plane at Wahn Airport near Bonn, the first stop on his journey, Kennedy appeared weary. But no sooner did his motorcade start passing through the thundering throngs than the campaigner revived. And throughout West Germany, the crowds responded. Women fainted; indeed, in Frankfurt, one gave birth to a baby right on the street. In Hanau, a schoolboy cried: "He looks like a young Siegfried!" Everywhere, homemade signs danced...
...Frankfurt, Kennedy rode with Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who is to take over from Adenauer next fall. Inspired by the crowds, the President turned impulsively to Erhard. Said he: "Let's stand up and wave." Asked a surprised Erhard, who is unaccustomed to U.S.-style political caravans: "Was? But Kennedy, after first instructing Erhard about how to wave with one hand and then the other to avoid tiring, finally persuaded the future West German Chancellor to rise. By the end of the Frankfurt motorcade, Erhard was out-waving Kennedy...