Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With only a month to go before Konrad Adenauer steps down as Chancellor, Goodbye, Old Chief, sung to twanging guitars and the lowing of lonesome steer, has become one of West Germany's top jukebox hits. As for the Old Chief, he seemed unusually mellow, even resigned to retirement after 14 years in office. Last week Adenauer, 87, journeyed to Rome in a nostalgic mood to say his goodbyes to President Segni and Pope Paul VI, who presented him with the Vatican's highest decoration, the jeweled chain of the Supreme Order of Christ, which had not been...
...Charlie with two inches to spare. Few believed that it could be done again, since presumably the Reds would now be suspicious of sports cars. Nevertheless, last week another enamored suitor with the same strategy in mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen of German origin, drove into East Berlin, cached his blonde sweetheart, Helga, in the car in the same way, and roared back to the West under the same peppermint-striped wooden crossbar. Belatedly, the Communists began fitting out the underside of the barrier with steel bars...
...Biername" (drinking nickname) of "Toni," and at frothy functions would bang his stein on an oak table in unison with the rest of them. Later, in Cologne, he dazzled the frauleins at the local Pudelnass (Sopping Wet) Tennis Club. Among those who knew him, many were surprised when Konrad Adenauer (class of 1897) grew up to be a politician and eventually Chancellor of West Germany...
Among other things, De Gaulle wanted to get to know Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, the man who will take over from Konrad Adenauer next fall. They had an hour's "friendly" conversation. Actually, they talked past each other. De Gaulle kept stressing the mystique of Europe, while Erhard tried to talk economics but found that the General was as little interested in such matters as the Chancellor. As for the Franco-German treaty, De Gaulle managed to sound both hopeful and casual. "Treaties," he said with a shrug, "are like roses and young girls. They last while they last...
...Konrad Adenauer's old face, long locked in the glacial freeze of history, suddenly melted. "You see," he said, almost chortling, to the President of the U.S., "there are some people who want...