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...afternoon last week, in his book-lined study on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn, Kurt Schumacher received newsmen and a MARCH OF TIME cinema crew. He asked that pictures be taken of his boxer Ajax, because, "after all, he is the best looking." Then Schumacher repeated his familiar line: "The partition of Germany is the greatest source of strength for Soviet policy. Reunification is an aim more pressing and more important for peace . . . than any form of integration of one portion of Germany with other European countries." It turned out to be his last no to Western policy. That night, Kurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Last Nein | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...built for a polio victim) has an elevator to carry him from his upstairs bedroom to his downstairs study, and a terrace where on sunny days he reads, dashes off memos and receives a steady stream of callers who come for inspiration, discipline or orders. A lively boxer named Ajax sits at his feet; a charming German widow of 32 is secretary, nurse and traveling companion. "I have no private life," explains Frau Annemarie Ren-ger, who grew up with Socialism, lost her husband in the war and came to Kurt Schumacher offering to be "his right arm and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tiger, Burning Bright | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Comeback | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Dean Fred W. Ajax of Georgia Tech was so harassed that he hardly had time to eat lunch. "I have personnel men from seven companies out here today interviewing students for jobs," he said, "and I have an average of three companies coming every day for the next three months. This is absolutely a sellers' market for engineers -any kind of engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Any Kind | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...year ago, neither Dean Ajax nor any other engineering dean was being harassed that way. Engineers were momentarily a glut on the market. But now, M.I.T. found that every one of its prospective February graduates had at least one job lined up. CalTech had 404 requests in two weeks. Illinois Tech blinked to find that it was getting recruiting visits from top company executives. Some of them were offering $125 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Any Kind | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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