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CRACK OF DOOM (313 pp.)-Willi Heinrich-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...these icy blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
Dwarfs & Giants. At a reception for 600 given by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, at posh La Redoute, Mikoyan at first sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons...
Double Indemnity. In Usen, Germany, when Heinrich Bormann tried to hang himself from a branch overhanging a creek, the branch broke and he was drowned...
Advice to the Faculty. Franklin Clark Fry has rarely had doubts about what to think, and the certainty of his background helped. Heinrich Frey, a mechanic who traced his ancestry to William Tell, arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany about 1670. His descendant Franklin Clark Fry-the third in a row to enter the Lutheran ministry-grew up in Rochester, where his father was pastor of the Church of the Reformation. The small Fry showed an early attachment for the church; at the age of four he was heard to warn a friend: "You keep off! This is my father...