Word: skat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sailing & Skat. Alfried Krupp leaves the day-to-day direction of his empire to Beitz, who has learned to anticipate his boss's wishes so well that he rarely bothers him with anything but major problems. Krupp himself rarely issues outright commands; he simply makes suggestions, seldom overrules his directors. When he does, his decision is not questioned...
Aside from sports cars (he has two) and photography, Krupp's chief recreation is his 66-ft. schooner Germania V, on which he cruises for one or two months a year. Krupp also likes to play skat-at one-tenth of a pfennig a point...
Personality: Paunchy, moonfaced, tousle-haired, Ollenhauer presides placidly over his party's bureaucracy, delivers cautiously hedged speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have...