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...good many politicians, in fact, think Barzel has come too far too fast. Last February, when Konrad Adenauer resigned the C.D.U. chairmanship and Erhard showed reluctance to take it, Barzel suddenly announced that he would run for the post. Outraged at what they considered a grab for power, party leaders talked Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would...
...Johnson, a plump, elderly woman who lived near Candlestick Park. "Mama" Johnson took Marichal and Matty Alou into her home as boarders, force-fed them English, lectured them on "Getting Along in America." "If we didn't pay attention to what she said," recalls Alou, "she'd grab her dish mop and give us a swat. She'd tell us, 'You want to make good in this country, you learn to speak English. Nobody makes shaving commercials in Spanish.' " Lonely and homesick, Marichal played Dominican records over and over by the hour. "Finally...
...apparently drunken driver who stepped on the gas just as the investigating officer reached in the window. Taking the stand in his own behalf, Bova, 23, said that the car "gave a sudden lurch forward. My feet were knocked out from under me. I recall making a grab to get my balance. At this time, my revolver was unintentionally fired...
...voice, as she freely admits, is as awful as her father's was good-a circumstance that in the world of pop has hurt her not one whit. With such best-selling noises as How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?, Nancy Sinatra, 25, can now claim to have made it in her own right. In fact, she does so well pressing platters that she is now hotly pursuing another pop line of work. In Manhattan with her mother Nancy, 47, Frankie's daughter witnessed the world premiere of her first starring film, The Last of the Secret...
Sophomore Steve Schoonover finally returned to his mid-winter form and cleared 14 feet for an unofficial University record to grab second...