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Admitting he could not hit the 1960 target date, G.A.F. Chief Josef Kammhuber, 60, a wartime night-fighter pilot, predicted, with a confident look into the wild blue yonder: "They will certainly be ready by 1962." That depended, however, on the war-thinned younger generation, about whom a former Luftwaffe ace complains: "When we were young, we were speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite...
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who was on his way to his own wedding at nearby Rott-am-Inn when he heard the news on the car radio, rushed to the scene, suspended the battalion and company commanders from duty, appointed a special commission to investigate the case. Then he went on to his wedding (but canceled the parade scheduled in his honor). Chancellor Adenauer expressed his condolences to the dead soldiers' families, and the Bavarian state assembly convened a special session to express its regrets...
Married. Franz Josef Strauss, 41, West German Defense Minister; and Marianne Zwicknagel, 27, daughter of a German diplomat (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in Rottam-Inn, Bavaria, Germany...
...hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. But insiders who know the importance of ceremonial minutiae at the Vatican could see tacit support of the exiles for the cardinal in the presence of their spiritual adviser, Archbishop Josef Gawlina, Ordinary to the Poles-in-exile...
Ever since his short-lived freedom from Communist jailers during last autumn's Hungarian revolution, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works on his memoirs and takes infrequent strolls in a gloomy little patio in the legation compound. Though the legation keeps him supplied with newspapers (including the Paris Herald Tribune), the protocol of diplomatic refuge forbids him to receive or send letters or to use the telephone...