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Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled...
...York's Columbia University, Erhard received an honorary doctor of laws degree, along with six others. At a luncheon given by the German-American Chamber of Commerce and attended by 635 U.S. businessmen, Erhard spoke of deteriorating U.S.-French relations, and their effect on the Atlantic Alliance. West Germany's foreign policy, he said, depends on a strong Western Alliance that includes both France and the U.S. "There can be no European unity without France or without Germany," he declared. And "without the closest alliance with the U.S.," there can be no North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Died. Erwin R. Bergdoll, 74, World War I draft dodger, the playboy son of a German-American brewer in Philadelphia, who, with his better known younger brother, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, proclaimed "we do not wish to fight against our own kind," skipped around the country from 1918 to 1920, sending federal authorities postcards until he finally surrendered (Grover fled to Germany) and served half of a four-year sentence; of a heart attack; in Camden...
Inconclusive Results. Last week, despite the hazard of winter storms with hurricane winds, two other rigs also drilled off West Germany for a German-American consortium. More rigs are converging on the area from as far off as Borneo, and shipyards from Belfast to Kiel are turning out drilling platforms to overcome a worldwide short age. All this activity is a result of the mammoth pocket of gas that was discovered in 1959 by Esso and Shell in the coastal Dutch province of Groningen near the German border. Seismic tests have since convinced oilmen that the North Sea may contain...
Drilling was started off the Dutch coast, but the biggest pockets of gas are now thought to lie in the waters off Germany. Bonn's Ministry for Economic Affairs has more than 25 requests for permission to drill in German waters, including one by the German-American North Sea Consortium that includes Socony Mobil, Indiana Standard and Esso. The consortium is prepared to spend $25 million this year and next drilling for gas off the German coast, and will soon start to drill near the island of Borkum...