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...filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...
...father, a staunch Catholic, kept a butcher shop in the Schwabing sector of Munich in the years Naziism got started there. More than once, young Franz Josef wrapped cold cuts for a poultry-breeding patron named Heinrich Himmler. Across from the butcher shop at No. 49 Schelling-strasse, Heinrich Hoffman kept a photographic shop where a frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz...
...Adenauer's successor, though he knows that Erhard lacks both health and political savvy to hang on for more than one term. Then it would be his turn. Meanwhile, there are signs that he wants to be Foreign Minister, and is beginning to work on Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano the way he did on Blank...
...year-old novel proclaims it to be "undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks, and needs, a scholarly introduction...
...Like The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Invitation to a Beheading, it was buried under critical neglect and popular apathy when it appeared, is now gaining a second life through the continuing Lolita boom. But Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect-Shakespeare's "expense of spirit in a waste of shame...