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Faced with Adenauer's maneuvers. Free Democrat Leader Erich Mende angrily warned he would topple the coalition government by withdrawing his support if Adenauer went back on his pledge to quit. Nor were CDU party members any happier. At CDU meetings all over the country, members demanded that Erhard, brilliant architect of Germany's prosperity, be clearly designated Adenauer's successor. When one politician introduced Erhard and spoke of his "future leadership" at a rally in Berlin's Sportpalast last week, a crowd of 7,000 cheered wildly...
...flashback, it develops that Charlie was a famed concert pianist whose wife (Nicole Berger) made his career by sleeping with his concert manager. When Charlie is unable to forgive her, she commits suicide, and his career hits the skids. Charlie's present is no happier than his past. A couple of his brothers, both criminals, entangle him in a caper, and though Charlie escapes with his life, gunmen riddle his lovely and adoring mistress (Marie du Bois). At film's end, Charlie is back at the bistro, and the moral, if any, seems to be that shooting...
...this activity-organized spontaneously by Sun City residents without artificial "cruise-director" stimulation-seems to make oldsters healthier as well as happier; they make fewer trips to the doctor, and the death rate is actually lower than for comparable age groups elsewhere. Hypochondriacs are at a minimum; when one of Sun City's three resident doctors gets a call, he knows he had better get there fast...
...Deal, Fair Deal and Eisenhower programs alike. Now 82, the per snickety Welshman will retire this July 31. But "not to hibernate," he said. "I plan to become a missionary to the liberal heathen of the Hill . . . preaching conservatism to those members who yet may be saved to a happier future...
...nine centuries, since William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings, the English Channel has stood as the "moat defensive'' between Britain and her foes, between the "blessed plot" and the "envy of less happier lands." Today, Paris-London jets pass over the Channel tides in three minutes; nuclear missiles would blast across in as many seconds. The balance of envy has changed. Increasingly prosperous Britons, who swarm across to the Continent by the thousands each summer, return with European notions of comfort, elegance and efficiency that have breached England's insularity more surely than any invader...