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...concerned when Brandt chose as his Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, then the party's Bundestag floor leader, who did not even want the job because it was regarded as a political graveyard. Concern turned to alarm when Schmidt created a McNamara-like think tank headed by Dr. Theo Sommer, 39, an intellectual and deputy editor of the highly regarded liberal weekly Die Zeit; to some military men, it was like turning John Kenneth Galbraith loose in the Pentagon. But the Bundeswehr has been pleasantly surprised, for Schmidt has brought to his job the same imagination and flair that Brandt...
White Book. Schmidt quickly set Sommer's brain trust to work probing every facet of life in the Bundeswehr. He was particularly interested in improving morale. As Sommer put it: "The soldier limps and lags behind society. He is in a dismal state. Propping up the morale of the army is not so much a question of pay as of living conditions and schooling." Last week the results of Sommer's study, in the form of a 211-page White Book, were debated in the Bundestag. The report discusses everything from weapons development to whether recruits should...
Helpful Hints. The game, produced by Psychology Today Games (an off shoot of the magazine) now on sale ($5.95) at major department stores, was developed at the University of California at Davis by Psychology Department Chairman Robert Sommer. It was conceived as a painless way for middle-class whites to experience-and understand-the frustrations of blacks. In Sommer's version, however, the black player could not win; as a simulation of frustration, the game was too successful. Then David Popoff, a Psychology Today edi tor, redesigned the game, taking suggestions from militant black members...
...always renowned for political audacity, was under attack for censoring two separate peace pleas taped by Carol Burnett and Elke Sommer for the network's late-night Merv Griffin Show. Both were emotional appeals for antiwar letters to be sent to Mrs. Martin Luther King, who planned to deliver them to the President as part of a movement called People for Peace. After Burnett's bitter protest, the network apologized, saluting her as "one of the great stars in the CBS family." Like the Smothers Brothers...
Dean Martin and Elke Sommer have locked up star billing in House of Seven Joys, Columbia's new Matt Helm thriller. Yet one supporting role is sure to set the audience buzzing. That's when an aide informs the President that thieves have made off with $1 billion in gold bullion. And there's old L.B.J. listening to the bad news. Old who? Well, it's not quite the boss himself, folks. It's his cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J...