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...Privately, Erhard told friends that the German economy has paused for "a breathing spell." Confronted with the added threat of strikes by transport, coal and bank workers demanding shorter hours and more pay, the engineer of the German miracle had a typically German solution. Citizens, said Erhard, should "ponder whether the German people ought not to be prepared, instead of working less than a 45-hour week, to work one hour more...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles's office in the Pentagon last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear...
...wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine Nystroms." Heartbroken and haggard, Fred Nystrom could only ponder the lives that Mount Vernon's model girl had mangled...
...knew that in a real sense the sentence represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University's Theologian Helmut Thielicke: "I know exactly what he will do now; he will pray for his enemies and become a source of life for his fellow prisoners . . . Will we ponder, on our part, how, by imprisoning him, Eastern tyranny has passed judgment on itself...
...chatters on about his sponsor's solid products, still gives the latest news bulletins every half-hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something to say. "Why, honey," he told a girl who wanted to know about...