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Even for John Kennedy, it was an arduous week of activity. It began with word of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's setback in West Germany. Then came the news of Dag Hammarskjold's death. The next day, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko began their cautious, first-round sparring about Berlin. Across the U.S., like malevolent mist, drifted the fallout from the Russian nuclear test shots, which by week's end had reached...
Over morning coffee, Bonn celebrated the first day P.A.-Post-Adenauer. Almost in disbelief, politicians of all parties concluded that West Germany's fourth postwar election had finally scuttled the Old Chancellor. Angrily, Konrad Adenauer vented his rage on campaign officials, the Socialists, the U.S. (for not allowing him to accompany Lyndon Johnson to Berlin, which would have been great campaign publicity). When he announced a press conference for noon, friends and foes alike guessed that der Alte was about to step down. Instead, the Old Fox left no doubt that in West Germany it was still Anno Adenauer...
Khrushchev's talk of a loo-megaton bomb, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said grimly: "We know that the Soviet Union's stocks of nuclear weapons already suffice to destroy our whole country, to destroy all Europe . . . This is the way the world is, and I ask you all to see the world as it is. The Soviet Union also knows full well that if it should in fact come to nuclear war, Soviet Russia will also be eradicated...
...know how much of a boost the Berlin crisis had actually given Willy Brandt. No one may really know until the electorate gets down to marking the ballots on Sept. 17. But in the wake of the Communists' blow, there was a slight-and only slight-question of Konrad Adenauer's continued dominance...
This was the age in which Metternich said that "the levels of man commenced with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like...