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...says roly-poly Friedrich Jahn, 39, "is to become the European Howard Johnson." He is well on the way. Only seven years ago, Austrian-born Jahn was a waiter in a Munich striptease nightclub. Today he runs a money-clinking chain of 111 "Wienerwald" restaurants that serve up spit-roasted chicken, Viennese wine, and recorded zither music to 100,000 customers a day in 58 German cities. Partly because of Jahn's promotional abilities, German consumption of chicken has increased nearly fourfold since 1955 (to last year's average 13 Ibs. per person), and West Germany has become...
...continue to operate under a state-appointed administrator. There was also some hope that Schlieker KG could avoid receivership entirely by working out a rescue operation through the banks. During the week, the Dresdner Bank arranged to beef up Schlieker's capital base by $1,000,000, and Munich Private Banker Rudolf Münemann, another of Germany's postwar millionaires, hustled up to Hamburg to huddle with Schlieker. Said Schlieker with tears in his eyes, "In the past five days, I have died five deaths...
Also Bavarian, but of another breed, is West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 46, who has always seemed willing to trade Munich for Bonn - and who, in the view of his detractors, had his eye on the Palais Schaumburg, residence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...
...Strauss for months, in vited him for two intimate chats at which the Defense Minister unburdened his complaints. The cagey Chancellor listened, then told Strauss that he was a fine fellow whose resignation would force an embarrassing reshuffle of the Cabinet. By the time the talks were over, Munich had faded from Strauss's memory and Bonn felt like home again...