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...Konrad Adenauer would have liked the company, and enjoyed being the center of attention. To his funeral in Cologne this week came the rulers and statesmen of the Atlantic world, including Presidents Johnson and De Gaulle, Britain's Harold Wilson, and the heads of some ten or more other European governments. It was a fitting tribute to the man who, more than any other, had shaped the destiny of postwar Europe. His death last week at 91 came at a time of change and unease within Europe and between Europe and the U.S., and the summit gathering...
...Thick Skin. Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876, when Bismarck was governing a recently united German nation. At 29, he was refused a life insurance policy as a bad risk because of weak lungs; at 68, his Gestapo jailers feared that he might commit suicide because, they reasoned, at that age, he "had nothing more to expect from life." He grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne...
...Wilson, professor of Zoology, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, and B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, will discuss aggression and Konrad Lorenz's bookOn Aggression at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Bertram Hall Common Room...
Died. Fritz Schaffer, 78, German economist and Konrad Adenauer's Fi nance Minister from 1949 to 1957, an ascetic Bavarian who saddled West Germany with the stiffest taxes in Europe, fiercely resisted what he considered nonessential government spending, and was largely responsible for the deutsche mark's becoming one of the world's hardest currencies; of a heart attack; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
Such official visitors as 91-year-old Konrad Adenauer have had to wait until 10 p.m. for private tours. French newspapers and magazines are filled with articles on "The Short and Pathetic Life of a Persecuted Monarch" and "Was King Tut Really a Woman?" L'Express depicted De Gaulle as a Pharaoh, and even fashion has been afflicted. Two top hairdressers, Alexandre and Carita, have created Egyptian coiffures and appropriate makeup-blue or black lines outlining lips and nostrils, plus eyeliner extending halfway round to a lady's ears...