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Even in Germany there were a few among all the defeated, among all the homeless and injured, all the guilty and the frightened, who felt that joy. "I remember the sky was clear and the heavens blue, and we felt liberated," says German Author Walter Kempowski, who was then 16. "I spent May 8 drinking champagne with my mother and grandfather on the balcony. My mother, who was in the Bekennende Kirche [an anti-Nazi Protestant splinter group], said, 'It was we who won the war, the church and the powers of goodness...
...gross national product had grown at only a 1.3% annual rate in the first quarter of this year. That was well below the sluggish 2.1 % estimate that the Government issued last month and the smallest GNP gain since the .5% increase in the final quarter of 1982. Noted Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The economy is pretty weak at the moment. We have had a lot of conflicting signals from the economy lately, and some have been concealing the fact that it has been performing poorly...
...Even though it seemed unlikely that there was cause for great alarm," says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, "anytime the President has to undergo serious surgery, it's major news." The decision to switch covers was quickly made, and the week's third and final choice was the presidential surgery. While the Business staff reluctantly cut back the nearly completed Coke story to five pages, a host of reporter-researchers, writers and editors, as well as members of the art and picture departments, canceled weekend plans and got down to work. Around the country, correspondents switched their attention from old Coke...
...many ways, the Great Coke Debate revealed something about the current state of the American psyche. In a world of ceaseless change, people cling desperately to the known and the given. The old Latin Mass is gone, the phone company has been broken up, Walter Cronkite is no longer on the evening news. Throughout those changes, Coke was always there, a misty memory from childhood, a rock of ages. "Certain things in our psychological environment have to stay constant because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York...
...Walter Karney, a Navy captain and the internist who coordinated the President's annual physical examination in 1985, said last week that Dr. Edward Cattau, a member of the examining team, had in an April letter "strongly urged" a colonoscopy after the second intestinal growth was discovered. But White House sources deny that the letter, written a month after the examination, conveyed any sense of urgency...