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...would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes, lightweight nylon ropes and 1,000 special pitons, designed by Kauschke. On the sheer slate and limestone of the "elevator," Siegert knew they would find few natural...
...scriptwriters: Reporter Ryan, Novelists James Jones and Remain Gary, Scenarists David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The directors: Elmo Williams, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Among the advisers: General d'Armee Pierre Koenig, Lieut. General James Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy...
Washington was angered last week by a blistering attack on U.S. defense policy written by Colonel Gerd Schmückle, Strauss's press secretary. Wrote Schmückle in the conservative weekly Christ und Welt: "There are still people in the West who talk of conventional warfare, pauses, rollbacks, escalation and the like . . . Since both sides have atomic weapons, the idea of a conventional war in Europe is military alchemy. " Schmückle's conclusion : Western troops, including West Germans, should be prepared to fight it out with superbombs...
There is a new monster at large in Germany today and its name is prosperity. That is the view of Gerd Gaiser, South German novelist, World War II flyer and sometime schoolmaster. His countrymen's real religion is materialism, he feels, and their real measure of success is possession. In this book, Novelist Gaiser tries to show that in such a society, good people can only be hurt, while the greedy are blissfully unaware of their own ugliness. Says one well-to-do mother to her well-padded daughter: "Ditta, one shouldn't breathe a word...
...think a mean trick has been played on you," cried West Germany's largest newspaper, Bild-Zeitung, greeting Erhard's return. Influential Hamburg Publisher Dr. Gerd Bucerius, a Bundestag Deputy, had urged a vote of no confidence in Adenauer after taking a poll among 6,000 Famburgers and finding 92½% opposed to Adenauer's decision...