Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a picture comforting to any German male-but these days he is likely to find it only in an old movie. In fact, the traditional hausfrau is no more. Today's West German housewife, says Family Minister Franz-Joseph Wuermeling with a shudder, "prefers a secondhand Volkswagen to a second child...
...SPECULATORS, who are of every nationality, are gambling on an early rise in gold prices and often buy their bullion through European banks that are willing to lend them 90% of the purchase price at around 5% annual interest. According to New York Monetary Expert Franz Pick, increasing numbers of U.S. citizens (who are forbidden by law to own bullion) are buying it through agents who hand-carry dollars to Europe, buy the bars, and deposit them in Swiss banks...
Also Bavarian, but of another breed, is West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 46, who has always seemed willing to trade Munich for Bonn - and who, in the view of his detractors, had his eye on the Palais Schaumburg, residence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...Song III is from Franz Kafka's Diaries: This last week was like a total breakdown. . . . The clocks do not synchronize; the inner one chases in a devilish, or demoniac, or at any rate inhuman manner; the outer one goes haltingly at its usual pace...
...Born. To Franz Josef Strauss, 46, bumptious, burly West German Defense Minister, and Marianne Zwicknagel Strauss, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Munich...