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...most eminent professors rose in protest. Writing to every member of the Bundestag, they urged the outlawing of an atavism that is "utterly incompatible with our contemporary conception of morals and ethics." The professors, including Nobel prizewinning Physicist Max Born, got nowhere. The Bundestag is laced with the Alte Herren (alumni) of dueling societies. Fumed one Alter Herr: "Don't talk about things you don'tunderstand...
...Africa. The Schmiss mystique has survived all attempts to kill it. Hitler banned the most elite fraternities as potentially subversive. So did the Allies after World War II, but rescinded the rule under the impression that the institution had died. The Alte Herren soon reopened fraternity houses in the Student Prince tradition, paid for beer and blades, promised good jobs later, and hundreds of ill-housed students happily accepted. Today, West Germany has a whole new generation of highly placed Alte Herren...
...opened the regular weekly session of the West German Cabinet, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's unsmiling face was grimmer than ever. "Meine Herren," he began, "we have a very serious development for the world. For the good of everyone we must hope that President Eisenhower recovers quickly." Said a Frenchman: "My God, first it was the Sputniks, and now this. It looks as if God is on the wrong side...
...rail showed little emotion. They puffed cigarettes and stared at shoreside railroad cars loaded with jeeps, at fireboats squirting a welcome. There was no mood of wild celebration. "We figure we'll have to go back there," said Pfc. George Miller, of Brooklyn. All Corporal Raymond Herren wanted was to get back to Alton, Ill. and see his wife and kids. "The boy, Paul, I've never seen," remarked Herren. "He was born in October. You miss things besides drinking and helling around. You just want to see green American grass...
Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...