Word: konrads
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Died. Hans Anton Kroll, 69, West German Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1962, a feisty career diplomat who in 1950 was chosen by Konrad Adenauer to head an East European trade ministry, got along so well with the Communists that he was posted to Moscow, where his ardent campaign for Russo-German friendship grew so distasteful to Germany's Western allies that der Alte finally recalled him; of a heart attack; in Starnberg, West Germany...
...fact is that if violence is not innate, it is a basic component of human behavior. The German naturalist Konrad Lorenz believes that, unlike other carnivores, man did not at an early stage develop inhibitions against killing members of his own species-because he was too weak. As he developed weapons, he learned to kill, and he also learned moral restraints, but these never penetrated far enough. Writes Lorenz: "The deep emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the cocking of a forefinger to release a shot tears the entrails of another...
...EVELYN KONRAD Evelyn Konrad Public Relations Manhattan...
...year since 1950, slipped to barely 3% in 1966. So far this year, real gross national product has actually declined. New Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger shares the widely held view that the roots of the downturn can be traced to an orgy of overspending by the governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. To restore public confidence, Kiesinger's seven-month-old coalition regime last week finally reached for drastic measures that will put the budget in better balance and then, the government hopes, help push the economy back up the mountain...
...Hitler regime, Abs did not join the Nazi Party and at the end of World War II quietly retired to his Rhineland estate. Tapped in 1948 to run the agency that distributed Marshall Plan credit to German industry, Abs soon became a close adviser to fellow Catholic Konrad Adenauer, often attended Bonn Cabinet meetings at the Chancellor's request. "When the Chancellor has worries, he calls me," said Abs. Twice, Adenauer offered him the Foreign Ministry, but Abs declined. "My work," he explained, "lies in economics...