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...looking over my shoulder" in the remaining months before his promised fall retirement is a fact. Besides, he added, "I simply don't see why we must reach a decision now," since there were three other candidates for the job, and he named them: C.D.U. Bundestag Leader Heinrich von Brentano; Adenauer's old crony, Minister Without Portfolio Heinrich Krone; Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder. The gambit did not work: one after the other, to the old man's surprise, each of the three prominent leaders rose to refuse candidacy for the nation's most powerful office...
...people to be interested in moon rockets and such stuff-there at Alabama's Huntsville space center was former first magnitude Film Star Gloria Swanson, 6.4, hearing all about other worlds from a man she had long admired, Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Broun, 51. "I felt self-conscious taking his time," said Gloria. "If you're a woman, people think you have feathers in your head, especially if you're from Hollywood. But I poked around asking what's this, how does that work, what's that little green thing? It was fascinating...
...Britain's Prince Philip and his daughter. Princess Anne, 12, clambered out of their raspberry-pink royal plane at Frankfurt last week, there were no top hatted officials to welcome them or respectful crowds cheering "Es lebe hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...
...composed of the nouveau riche and the ancient upper crust, shuttles between St. Moritz and Egypt's resort of Helwan. Its reigning beauty is the statuesque blonde daughter of Banker Miine-mann, "Antschi," who hurtles around town in an eggshell-colored Ferrari; however, many families with "von" in their names still prefer to drive Volkswagens. "Everything," sighs a jet-set princess, "is so mixed up these days...
...demand as public relations men. "I do like snobs," exclaims one princely P.R. man. "They are all so kind to one!" Two of West Germany's ablest journalists are titled: Countess Marion Donhoff, political editor of Hamburg's weekly Die Zeit, and Count Hans Werner Finck von Finckenstein, a correspondent for Die Welt. Says one corporate count: "All you need to get ahead in industry is reasonably good looks, self-assurance and organizational talent. This the nobility had, and now the young ones are all fat people in their firms...