Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Princess Anastasia of Prussia, 21, great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, a Frankfurt kindergarten teacher; and Prince Aloys-Konstantin, 23, law student at Würzburg University; in Erbach, Germany...
Peter Fuld was a German refugee who had become a Canadian citizen and created a thriving telephone-equipment business in London and Frankfurt. Three years ago, at 41, Fuld died of a brain tumor, leaving an estate estimated at $28 million, plus an exwife, an ex-fiancée, his mother, other relatives and numerous friends-all with assorted claims to his money...
...most Europeans are still working toward their first. They are working hard: Europe's overall auto sales rose 7% last year, when record years in Britain and West Germany offset slumps in France and Italy. As the annual run of international auto shows began last week in Frankfurt, Europe's 1966 model year headed toward further gains. If, as in the U.S., the new models brought few big surprises, there were striking signs that European automakers are betting heavily on some lessons from Detroit...
Triple Lure. Tens of thousands of auto buffs last week thronged Frankfurt's six cavernous exhibit halls to view the offerings of 69 manufacturers from 15 countries, including those of the big four U.S. auto companies. With scarcely an exception, the foreign firms went all out to adopt the triple lure that U.S. automakers have used successfully for years: more power and luxury features, greater model variety...
Prodigy & Breakdown. Goethe's brilliance was evident early, and so were his problems. His mother, a gay young heiress with a wild gene of genius in her own disposition, strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...