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...vain, too, do they declare their loyalty to NATO; their assurances are spurned . . . The Norwegians are summoned to explain their conduct before a jury composed of such loyalists as Mr. Wilson and Herr Kiesinger. They reply by inviting President Johnson; he insists on a meeting with the entire Norwegian cabinet, known to contain some men open to pressure. Meanwhile, American soldiers stay in Norway for weeks after joint maneuvers are over. The world waits to see if the Marines will move...
...though. A German conductor named Karl Munchinger, who is aboard for the whole trip, keeps grumbling about the recorded music in the salons and corridors. But Daddy and I really do enjoy hearing Bach and Beethoven wherever we go. All he says is "Encores aweigh!" Have to run now. Herr Kempff is practicing Mozart, and we are all invited. Much love...
...Herr Zimmermann lies on a secretive ramp...
North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
Mister Master. The title mania will be hard to snuff out. A senior administrative court inspector, first class, glories in being called Herr Verwaltungsgerichtoberinspektor, and a section manager at the big German electrical firm of Siemens is an Abteilungsbevollmächtigter (section plenipotentiary), even though he may be in charge of only six men. A man who wants his auto fixed knows that he had better address his mechanic as Herr Meister#151;Mister Master. A university graduate's Herr Doktor becomes part of his name, and if he earns a second degree, he adds it, too, becoming...