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Only seven weeks ago Adenauer had insisted that he intended to stand a fourth time for Chancellor in the 1961 elections. His own candidate for President was his Vice Chancellor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the rotund, popular engineer of the German economic miracle. But for once, the icy Adenauer eye failed to transfix his party's politicos. Rebellious Bundestag backbenchers protested that to make Erhard President would be to deprive the Christian Democratic Party of "our best vote-getter in 1961," and Erhard himself declined the offer (TIME, March 16). A successful defiance of Adenauer was something...
...this point a rotund shape loomed on the horizon. It was that of Sir Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph, 47, cheerily announcing his willingness to be of help: "I have always wanted to be a member of Parliament. I think my upbringing and varied experience of life entitle me to suppose without presumption that I have some useful contributions to make...
...would probably weaken international confidence in the pound.) To the rest of Europe's politicians and money managers, the fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "Who will blame me for feeling deep personal satisfaction? After all, it was I who eight years ago in a world of destruction, disorder and disbelief called for convertibility. What did I get? Mockery and scorn. Yet of all conceivable forms of integration in the free...
Setting forth last month, armed with a hoard of cigars to chain-smoke, rotund Minister Erhard announced that he was going East with an open mind...
This, in short, is the past-present, one which began with the Republic and which ended with the more rotund enormities of the Civil War period. Most of it, with its uncompromising verticality, its clinging ivy, its jutting, discreetly windows, survives in a comparatively limited area...