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...ironic bearing on the public doings of the historical figures. The young hero, an enlightened Welsh aristocrat named Augustine Penry-Herbert, seemed to exemplify the misguided good will of his generation in England; he believed that 1917 had ended, not begun, the pattern of world wars. The Bavarian relatives whom Augustine visited for a while reflected the social and psychological disarray of Germany in the early 1920s. The concluding set piece of Hitler's abortive 1923 beer-hall putsch in Munich suggested the tidal pull of events in which all the characters were destined to be caught...
Downtown Omaha is pocked with other visible signs of support for the World Series. Most of the major businesses sport World Series posters in their display windows. Some integrate the World Series with their own advertising. "Relax here after the game World Series fans," the marquee for the Bavarian Lounge on 13th St. suggests. It is a typical Omaha response to the event...
...sort of Boy's Life of Genghis Khan. There goes the youthful, effervescent Adolf trotting off to school at the local Benedictine Abbey at Lambach and passing by an old abbot's pet insignia, the swastika.* Here he comes, voraciously reading the latest sauerkraut western by Bavarian Author Karl May, whose genocidal hero Old Shatterhand was busy exterminating the insidious "Ogellelah" Indians. From Payne's researches in the New York Public Library come telling excerpts from the unpublished memoirs of Hitler's sister-in-law, Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, especially tantalizing glimpses of the impoverished, slothful future...
Strength. When workers are fired, they are rewarded with generous severance pay: a month's pay for each year worked is common. Thanks to the strength of the trade unions, it is becoming even harder to lay off unwanted workers. In West Germany, for example, the Bavarian metalworkers union has just negotiated what may be the ultimate in job security-and a model for other unions. A worker who is either 55 years old and has been with the same company for 20 years, or is 50 and has been with it for 25 years, cannot be fired...
...partnership. There is Nixon, 60, champion of Middle American virtues, a secretive, aloof yet old-fashioned politician given to oversimplified rhetoric, who founded his career on gut-fighting anti-Communism but has become in his maturity a surprisingly flexible, even unpredictable statesman. At his side is Kissinger, 49, a Bavarian-born Harvard professor of urbane and subtle intelligence, a creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger an intellectual framework and negotiating skills?they have been changing...