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Adenauer's press office tried to quell the furor by implying that the Times story misquoted the Chancellor, but instead, the transcript confirmed that Adenauer had thought Erhard lacked enough "experience" and "one has to be cautious." Cried Erhard: "It's bad democratic practice if the impression circulates abroad that here's a man in his 84th year and after him there will be nothing." Added Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag: Adenauer is "going too far." What looked to be a storm dying out, said Gerstenmaier, is now a storm "swelling to a head...
...keep costs under control. But to reduce sports to club status just to save what is really a mere pittance is false economy. By degrading lacrosse the University saved $5,000. Was this sum, almost an undistinguishable digit in the multi-figured budget of the University, worth all the furor and ill-feeling that resulted? This $5,000, twice the $5,000, and I wager seven times this $5,000 could be saved if some efficient person delved into the general workings of buildings and grounds--the department responsible for the up-keep of University buildings...
...imagine the furor if a group of Roman Catholic bishops should subject a Protestant candidate to a formal questioning of matters concerning his faith! The howl would be heard from Washington to Rome...
...time, the U.S. was on the defensive in the radiation fallout controversy, and Russia certainly would have made propaganda hay out of a story that the U.S. was planning to explode atomic bombs over the South Atlantic. Some scientists told Baldwin that if he printed the story, the furor might well force the U.S. to stop the tests. But it could also be argued that Baldwin had a duty to tell the American public in advance about an event that might have serious international implications. Baldwin decided to stay mum.* Says he simply: "It was a question of whether...
Schaus's party won, and last week, when the new government was formed, the furor over the accidents produced a major casualty. Portly, white-haired Joseph Bech, 72-a Christian Socialist who has been Foreign Minister for the past 33 years and a familiar florid figure at nearly every international conference since League of Nations days, in the company of the famed from Lloyd George to Macmillan-lost his job. The new Foreign Minister: Eugene Schaus...