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...adventures began when Conrad (real name: Teodor Joózef Konrad Korzeniowski), the orphaned son of Polish intellectuals, defied his guardian and went to sea at the age of 16. Nostromo, for instance, describes with photographic precision a revolution he witnessed in Central America while serving as an apprentice aboard a French barque carrying guns to the insurgents. The Nigger of the Narcissus narrates, day by day, a stormy voyage that Conrad once took around the Cape of Good Hope; the "nigger" was an old black seaman born a slave in Georgia who died at sea as he does...
Virtually discarded is the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship signed with great hope by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in January 1963. "Ça sera fini [it will be ended]," sniffed De Gaulle contemptuously some months ago. This hardly bothers the West Germans, who have seen the treaty's value dwindle. The Germans realize that they are the only nation in the Western alliance with unresolved border problems, hence the only nation likely to use "nukes" in passion. What does bother them are the recent blunt remarks attributed to De Gaulle that he is now dead set against Bonn...
Strauss got an assist from a fellow Gaullist, that wily old (89) wheeler-dealer ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer proclaimed that President Heinrich Lübke, his great admirer, had every constitutional right to veto Erhard's Cabinet appointments. Schröder fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
...boisterous Bavarians accepted defeat, which was softened a bit by their getting five seats in the 22-man Cabinet instead of the previous four. Strauss was offered the Interior Ministry, but, presumably because he considered it a demotion from his former job at Defense, he turned it down. Konrad Adenauer was offered nothing; to many a West German, his role in the process merely further tarnished a grand old image that would have retained its high gloss had he only retired some years...
Ever since Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen discovered his wonderful X rays in 1895, physicists and physicians have been burning themselves, and sometimes patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...