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...most of his classmates had no specific plans when they walked out of their school in March 1956. "We were just feeling our way," says Wilhelm Wiethoff, a secondary-school teacher. "For a working-class boy like me to have graduated seemed enough." Making money did not figure high on anyone's agenda. "We knew things would go upward," says Niehues, a lawyer who considered following his father into public service and instead found his place at Ruhrgas, a large utility. "We simply wanted a well-ordered, good life, and we wanted to help shape the future...
Some ambivalence remains about the details of unification. Wiethoff is not sure the capital should be moved to Berlin. "Berlin reminds me of the great Nazi marches of the '30s and '40s, of Hitler's 'Do you want total war?' " he says. "Bonn stands for 40 years of tested democracy...
...kind of perfectionism that bothers me," says Hoell. "We could probably make do with 80% and live better." Working hard -- perhaps too hard -- has been part of the price paid by a generation that Priebisch says "was forced to perform, to build something from nothing." The society, says Wiethoff, has a lot to learn. "It has to do with prosperity, which has made us hard and asocial. We talk a lot about our wealth and our clever politics, but what's the use if the human dimension is missing, if there is coldness and impatience and little contact with...
...support her four children. Last week more satisfaction & profits headed her way. A new car was ready to burst forth. Its name: The Rockne Six. Its maker: a subsidiary of Studebaker Corp. Its sales chief: George M. Graham, previously sales manager for Willys-Overland, assisted by Frank L. Wiethoff. Its production manager and engineer: R. A. Vail and R. C. Cole, who were in charge of the same departments in Dodge Bros, before it was absorbed by Chrysler...
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