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Born. To Georg Adenauer, 33, Bonn notary public, youngest of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's four sons, and Ulla-Britta Adenauer, 31, his Swedish wife: a son, their third, thus making der Alte a grandfather for the 24th time; in Bonn...
Honored at a noon luncheon in the War Memorial Auditorium were Harvard's William P. Murphy, John F. Enders, James D. Watson, Edward M. Purcell, Konrad E. Bloch and Charles A. Coolidge '17. The seventh man honored was Charles H. Townes, provost of M.I.T. and 1964 Nobel winner in physics...
Forgotten Experts. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard called a Cabinet meeting to discuss Nasser's possible motives for flouting Bonn. They were already well known and centered on a 1960 meeting at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israel's then Premier David Ben-Gurion. Adenauer, always sensitive about Germany's former crimes against the Jews, arranged to hand over $70 million worth of military equipment to Israel, with the approval-and possibly the urging-of Washington. The operation was so secret that Bonn's Foreign Ministry only discovered it by accident late...
Other fighter-type V/STOLs have already flown, but Ling-Temco-Vought's XC-142As are full-scale troop carriers, and they are remarkably agile. LTV's Director of Flight Operations John Konrad took his plane through a series of 360° turns only 20 ft. off the ground, then flew backward and forward with equal ease. Both pilots then reached for the one cockpit control that would have been out of place in a conventional plane: the lever that controls the two powerful screwjacks that can turn the wings until they point skyward or roll them back into...
...that, as Harvard Historian Henry S. Hughes puts it, today's world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of Churchill's greatest contemporaries, Konrad Adenauer, 89, does not share that fear. "What makes a statesman great?" he asks. "He needs first of all a clear conception of what is possible. Then he needs a clear conception of what he wants. Finally, a great leader must have the power of his convictions, a moral driving...