Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying to Berlin from "out there" at midweek, Chancellor Adenauer pledged still more budget aid and factory orders from the West. "If we do not become frightened," he told Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt and other rain-soaked welcomers at Tempelhof Airport, "we and our Western allies will master the situation." And then these two men, in accord on the big issues, went their separate politicking ways. Adenauer was careful to criticize West German Socialists like Ollenhauer, but not Socialist Brandt. And Brandt did not bother to campaign against his Christian Democratic opponent, Ernst Lemmer, a member of Adenauer...
...claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government's sovereign permission. "This situation must be brought in order," he blustered. Mayor Brandt sent his cops to protect the Communist rallies from irate West Berliners...
Evening after evening Willy Brandt motored from school to factory to beerhall, and addressed what Berliners call "felt-slipper" neighborhood meetings. Masterfully evoking the atmosphere of war's end and blockade, "when we hardly dared hope," the mayor got approving nods from women as he recalled how "mothers cheated themselves to give their husbands and children more to eat," ticked off post-blockade progress ("half a million new jobs, half a million Berliners in new apartments"), and briskly bade cloth-capped workers to stick with Berlin's friends in the West...
This week free Berlin cast its vote: for Mayor Brandt's Socialists, 52%; together with Adenauer's CDU, his coalition polled 89%. But, best news of all, the Communists got a measly 1.9%, even less than their vote before Nikita Khrushchev put Berlin once again to the test...
...honor, fell on her knees before him. As he drove through the streets in his blue-grey Pontiac, his excited fans followed in trucks and jeeps, shooting into the air and shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle Congo's capital city of Pointe-Noire. There the Assembly had turned the territory into an autonomous republic within the French community and named abbé Youlou its new Premier...