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Seeing in his 86th birthday with a flute of champagne, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received a baroque stone bench from the man perennially most likely to succeed him. Toasted Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, eliciting a faint smile and a wag of der Alte's steady old finger: "In order to forestall any bad jokes, I should say that this gift is not for use in retirement but for your relaxation...
...government since his inauguration, sent most of them away grateful for the treatment they received and impressed by Kennedy's broad knowledge and willingness to listen to their problems. Among his Western Allies, Kennedy gets along splendidly with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer recently left the White House declaring: "I've never left this house feeling better." Even France's diffi cult Charles de Gaulle trusts and respects Kennedy - up to a point. From De Gaulle aides after Kennedy's spring trip to Paris came word of a characteristic...
...Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Though no Western government, including that of Konrad Adenauer, supports nuclear armament of West Germany outside of NATO control, Touring Lecturer Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, cast a shrill chill over a Temple Israel audience in Long Beach, Calif., by proclaiming that the very thought of atomic weapons in German hands "terrifies me. Eighty per cent of West Germany's officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler...
...running Deutsche Bank, Abs is a director of 25 of the largest German corporations, plays a major role in deciding where Germany's investment capital shall be sluiced. On the political front, he is an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and a confidant of Konrad Adenauer. ("Whenever the Chancellor is worried, he calls me.'' says Abs matter of factly.) So sought after is Abs's advice that a colleague who recently asked for an appointment in November 1962 was regretfully informed that the date was already spoken...