Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit did serve that purpose. Ford, who is at his best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
Hard to Take. The commotion over the decree indicates how sensitive Bonn's neighbors are to any possible sign of new authoritarianism in Germany. The uproar further betrays a European envy of Germany's healthy economy and stable politics and an annoyance with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's penchant for lecturing other countries about their internal problems. Observed Luxembourg's liberal Premier Gaston Thorn: "One looks at West Germany, and one recalls that this was the country that started two world wars, lost both, and is now 'No. 1' in Western Europe; this...
West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been particularly irritated by Gerald Ford's somewhat ridiculous ban of the word détente - a policy that is identified with Schmidt's Social Democrats and widely questioned by his Christian Democratic opposition. He must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages...
...government could try to shrink the value of the mark, by having the Bundesbank sell deutsche marks for other currencies. But with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt running for re-election in October, such a move is improbable: it would irritate voters by reducing their ability to buy foreign goods and add to European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with...
Last week The Fantasticks, a winsome fantasy by Tom Jones with music by Harvey Schmidt, celebrated its 16th birthday with the usual flurry of statistics: 6,668 performances have grossed $4.2 million, with a return of $1.5 million on a $16,500 investment. Meanwhile the 140 actors who have performed in the musical's eight roles have worn out some 420 costumes and 350 pairs of shoes. The Sullivan Street Playhouse, the show's home for all these years, has gone through two sets of seats and had to have the stage floor replaced three times...