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...lesson was administered principally by a member of Adenauer's own Christian Democratic Party, Richard Jaeger, 42, chairman of the Bundestag's Security Committee. Jaeger, whose distrust of generals is exceeded only by his scorn for Prussians, is by heritage and career a Bavarian (which, as regional patriotism goes among Germans, is something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes...
...With scorn under the bubbling...
Inside Fight. Vice Premier Saragat, leader of the Social Democrats, was less mild. "This is not a government crisis," he snapped. "This is a Christian Democratic crisis. Moreover, this Christian Democratic crisis is due to purely personal and not to political reasons." The Liberals' Party Secretary Giovanni Malagodi scornfully attacked Pella's "strange argument" that "a one-party government would get its votes from the right for so-called national measures, while it would receive votes from the left for social measures. In other words, over the prostrate body of the nation would rule two demagogues...
Carter's devotion to the Star-Telegram and its city was matched only by his scorn for Dallas, 30 miles away. Nothing pleased him more than his slogan for Fort Worth ("Where the West Begins"), especially when he could add that Dallas was really for effete Easterners. Carter always refused to buy anything in Dallas, including food; on his rare visits to Dallas he proudly carried a box lunch. To make Fort Worth an aviation center, he became the largest single stockholder in American Airlines, moved its headquarters from Dallas to Fort Worth. The name...
...commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor of unobtrusive Rightness, are kindly amused by the Locals, find butlers ostentatious and profess a terror of intellectuals. In their houses, their clothes and their mores, they achieve enormous comfort, spending a lot of money wherever it does not show...