Word: saarlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip to Majorca. Both parties piously agreed to hold campaign expenditures down to $75,000-and both ended up spending some $500,000. Willy Brandt came down from Berlin to campaign for two days. Chancellor Erhard topped him by spending four days there, shaking hands and sipping Saarland milk for photographers. "I view this election," he declared between glasses, "as a vote of confidence or no-confidence...
They figured without Hary's fierce pride. Son of a Saarland coal miner who was a German wrestling champion. Hary began serious training at the age of 14. By 1958 Hary was the European champion, but he had won few personal admirers along the way. Says West German Track Boss Dr. Max Danz: "He was a little urchin, a tough kid and a little loudmouth." Hary cockily dispensed with a coach: "I've been raised to stand on my own two feet and can take my fate into my own hands." In time, Hary's starting reflexes...
...understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces that knew...