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Diamonds for Tears. The toast of tout Paris, Sarah accepted a diamond brooch from Alfonso XII of Spain, a necklace from Emperor Franz Josef, a fan from King Umberto of Italy, wore them all with élan. One admirer even ordered her a bicycle from Tiffany's studded with diamonds and rubies. Victor Hugo, after Sarah's performance in his play Hernani, wrote: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...JOSEF HOLBERT...
...vast majority of Germans wanted to let the statute of limitations against further trials of Nazi war criminals expire this spring and the whole business be done with. Franz Josef Strauss, the erratic ex-Defense Minister who is trying hard for a comeback, sneered that if the trials were to continue, "war criminals" on the Russian side should be tried too. But Chancellor Erhard and the Bundestag extended the statute. In a moving speech on the site of the Belsen concentration camp, President Heinrich Lübke recalled that many non-Jewish Germans were executed or imprisoned for opposing...
Mayor Willy Brandt (1962) and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (1964) have been used up, so the most likely German-of-the-year is Franz Josef Strauss, former Minister of Defense. Herr Strauss' citation will read: "He has made the Wall of Shame almost as big a drawing card as the Bridge of Sighs...
...fall of 1962, the newsmagazine Der Spiegel published a cover story holding its alltime favorite enemy, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, responsible for a long list of deficiencies in West Germany's defenses. What happened next reminded Germans of a part of their heritage most of them would rather forget...