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...child, Konrad Adenauer was instructed by his father: "Do not let yourself be diverted until you have finished, not even if a cannon goes off at your elbow." Amid thunderous salutes on the eve of his retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
...Justice Minister pointed out that, in common with South Africa's Liberal and Communist parties, NUSAS supports the maxim: "One Man One vote." The student organization has worked closely with the banned African National Congress, Vorster claimed. At the NUSAS convention in July Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli, former ANC leader, was elected honorary president of NUSAS...
...ever, that remains the question today. With Harriman, the U.S. had witnessed the great Communist switch of the Popular Front period, when Russia was severely threatened by the Nazis, ordered Communist parties everywhere to make common cause with the hither to despised Social Democrats, and even with the bourgeois. Maxim Litvinov, voluble ambassador to the U.S. and the League of Nations, spoke as eloquently as Khrushchev does today about "the peaceful coexistence of two systems-the socialist and the capitalist." After the cynical nonaggression treaty with Hitler killed off the Popular Front but could not prevent the German attack...
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...
Social Filter. L'Academie Maxim's was founded two and a half years ago by Maggie Vaudable, wife of the restaurant's present owner, to instruct a carefully selected group of girls in "the special sense of savoir-vivre that the French have prided themselves on since Louis XIV." Though the school claims to be open to all girls sufficiently familiar with the French language and culture to benefit from-not simply get along in-the all-French classes, in practice the students are recruited through a social filtering system that stretches through Europe...