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Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...
When Thomas Dehler, leader of the second-largest party in Adenauer's coalition, demanded "a German foreign policy" and bilateral negotiations with the Russians, Adenauer on his sickbed could not contain himself. He dashed off a letter demanding that Dehler recant and swear allegiance to Adenauer's policy. It was an appalling political error, the first sign that the sick old man was losing his legendary political instinct. Dehler had been slipping, but faced with such a humiliating ultimatum, a majority of his party rallied to him, and deserted the coalition. Adenauer's once-massive 334-vote...
...seven years no one inside his own coalition had dared to challenge so boldly the authority of old Konrad Adenauer. The challenge came from the second-largest party in his coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats. For months the Free Democrats have been muttering that Der Alte's foreign policy is "too rigidly" tied to the West. They saw their chance when Adenauer fell ill, and his iron hold on affairs loosened...
...seventh son, Joseph, was the great-great-grandfather of President John Adams and the great-great-great-grandfather of President John Quincy Adams. Sherman Adams traces his lineage through Henry Adams' eighth (and last) son, Edward. *The 399-member New Hampshire house of representatives, the nations' second-largest lawmaking body, includes a representative from every incorporated township with a population of at least...
Stop Sign. Curtice's problems in Washington are tougher to deal with. With annual sales ($13 billion) almost twice as large as those of the second-largest corporation (Standard Oil Co. of N.J.), G.M. is an ever-tempting political target. Moreover, some of Eisenhower's economic advisers are complaining about the rapid increase in consumer credit (up $4 billion in the first nine months of 1955, to $34.3 billion), and at the automobile industry's $14 billion share of it (although repayments are remarkably regular and repossessions low). Because Defense Secretary Wilson...