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Aber natürlich! When Christian Democrats from the city of Bonn convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...
...black beard. "I have bad control," Fidel Castro apologized to the catcher as he lobbed a few warmup pitches across the plate for dear old Oriente province. And covering second base was brother Raúl, head of Cuba's armed forces. Then it was batter-up, and whiff-whiff-whiff, the boys were breaking their backs trying to hit that roundhouse curve. By the end of the first inning, it was Fidel's team 14, the opposition 0. Moments later, the game dissolved...
...like that during much of the Easter weekend at Lyndon Johnson's ranch outside Johnson City. The President may exude slow-spoken, sobersided sincerity during his public appearances in Washington. But let him get a whiff of a spring-fresh Texas range dotted with cattle and Angora goats, and suddenly he comes on like a cross between a teen-age Grand Prix driver and a back-to-nature Thoreau in cow boy boots...
Raucous, sentimental, funny and bawdy, 49-year-old Tessie O'Shea is-as an admirer has described her in a dressing-room telegram-"a divine whiff of the Palladium." As the Sophie Tucker of British vaudeville, she is as familiar as a pint of mild in every corner of the United Kingdom, but she has never before appeared in the U.S. Her family was part of the Irish wave that settled in Cardiff and built its docks, but by the time she was born her father had solidly established himself in the newspaper-distribution business. She was "a little...
...doctors in his entourage hurried over and appeared to give him a whiff of smelling salts. As Chou raised his head, blood trickled from his nose. "It happens whenever he gets tired," shrugged one of his aides. "It is not serious, but that is why he always has a doctor with...