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...other maneuvers to check the trouble in his coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...
...story in a Manhattan courtroom that implied that the Italians were to blame for the July collision that sank Andrea Doria (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week came turn for Captain Piero Calamai, 58, to take the stand, and his anxiety still showed as he sat with bent shoulders, pale and tired-looking...
...Western legal observers and twelve Western correspondents. Witness after witness described the travail of interrogation by the secret police. The most telling indictment of all came from Janusz Suwart, 22-year-old son of a former Polish Communist. He is a thin, passionate youth with deep-set eyes and pale face. Here is how he answered when the prosecutor asked derisively: Isn't it true that you have already served two years in prison for theft...
Next, there was Sir Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular...
...Pale Cast of Thought. In Kansas City, Mo., a would-be stickup man waved a gun at Grocery Checker Mrs. Thelma Adams, thought things over for a moment, fled the store after muttering: "No, I guess it's not a holdup...