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...Ambler, 40, waited beside an altar trimmed with wild flowers and flanked with birch trees. Television lights gleamed on the bride's golden crown and her simple wedding dress and veil of Brussels lace. Standing before Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren, Margaretha answered the traditional question with a soft "Ja." Ambler said, "I will...
That sort of thing simply did not work well for West Berlin's Mayor Brandt, a political lightweight whose popularity is concentrated in his own city. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard kept himself and his C.D.U. loftily above party battles. "Ach ja," he deadpanned at the end of one speech, "I almost forgot, you're having an election here soon." Erhard accurately counted on his immense popularity as architect of Germany's economic miracle. "Shall I tell you what I have achieved?" he asked complacently. "I wouldn't think of it. There is no one who doesn...
...before the holiday season ends-many of them more than once. Tears and brandy flowed as the first visitors crossed the Wall. Grandparents sized up snowsuited two-year-olds they had never seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome...
...Gummilowe" (rubber lion). There is a widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...
...office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...