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Even with Der Dicke's face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
...tell a story on himself and General Walter Bedell Smith, who derided the anti-Nazi propaganda that was being dropped from planes on Germany. One day Smith called in Jackson and said, "I take it all back. One of those planes dropped a bale of printed matter over the Rhine and sank an enemy ship. I now recognize the effectiveness of your propaganda." During the cold war, when Jackson was active in a project to launch propaganda balloons over Czechoslovakia, he reported dreaming that he himself was floating over Czech territory with "svoboda" (freedom) lettered on his trousers...
...based its defense planning, even against conventional attack, on "using atomic weapons from the outset of a war." In a mere gunpowder war, NATO planners estimate that their forces could withstand a massive Soviet attack for a bare three days before being forced back to the banks of the Rhine; within 30 days the NATO troops would be swept from the Continent...
...government decreed a Federation-wide state of emergency, and two battalions of Malaya-based New Zealand and British Gurkha troops joined the hunt for the Indonesian guerrillas still on the loose in Malaya. To underline its determination, British airlifted an antiaircraft regiment, detached from its NATO Army of the Rhine, to Singapore, diverted a naval squadron to Malaysia from the Mediterranean. From London came word that Britain had decided to retaliate if Indonesia strikes the Malay Peninsula again...
...million- or 23% of its $3.2 billion revenue-that the Bundesbahn pours each year into modernizing its tracks, trains and service. Its 9,000 electric and diesel locomotives glide in jolt-free quiet over continuously welded tracks. Its 100-m.p.h., all-first-class superexpresses, like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly...