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...Franz-Josef Wurmeling, a booming, bright-eyed Berliner, is one of those well-meaning souls who feel compelled to share their righteousness with less fortunate neighbors. Herr Doktor Wurmeling is West Germany's first Minister for Family Affairs, the official champion of a higher birth rate, a lower divorce rate, more authority for the German husband. A zealous Roman Catholic husband and father (five children), he deplores short skirts, long embraces, plunging necklines. "My ministry," explains Wurmeling, "is the patron saint and guardian of the family...
...Franz-Josef Wurmeling's ministry is exceedingly small (only 15 employees), but in the five months since Chancellor Konrad Adenauer created the job for him, the Minister for Family Affairs has made himself the most controversial man in the Cabinet. Since he has little, if any, authority to do things, Dr. Wurmeling has worked simply at saying things. Under fire from several segments of society-Socialists, feminists, moviemakers, Protestant and anticlerical wings of his own party, some of the judiciary-he stood before a crowd of admirers last week and promised: "I shall not close my mouth...
...strong Catholic right wing, and one of Adenauer's busiest campaign speakers. (Wurmeling, his wife recalls, campaigned so hard that "he used to give speeches in his sleep.") After the last election. Adenauer repaid the debt by creating the Ministry for Family Affairs and commissioning Franz-Josef Wurmeling to try to promote for Germany's morals the kind of recovery the economists and politicians have achieved in material affairs...
...Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance in 4:04.4 in Auckland...
...Millrose Games meet-and its famed Wanamaker Mile-the Madison Square Garden box office was turning away business. The track fans were considerably more excited than 26-year-old Josef Barthel. Luxembourg's 1,500-meter Olympic champion (and record holder) was more concerned with his Harvard postgraduate studies in sanitary engineering. After classes, on the day of the meet, Barthel finally got around to hopping a train in Boston, and reached Manhattan just a few hours before...