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...coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...
...Bavarian mountain resort of Berchtesgaden, where Adolf Hitler used to hole up in his eagle's-nest retreat, a small, grey-haired woman of 60 got notice to get out of her $2.80-a-week room in a shabby row of flats. She was none other than Hitler's sister Paula, who has long gone by the name of Paula Wolf. Paula was not in arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped...
Atomic Headache. As a result of such scaremongering, thousands of suggestible Germans have come down with "atomic headache." The head of the Bavarian State Health Authority complained: "All the misfortune that Bavarians formerly ascribed to the Fohn (a hot Alpine wind) has now turned into the atomic head ache." The Bavarian Minister of the Interior tried to convince complaining farmers that the yellowing of their pastures had nothing to do with atomic rain. In Salzburg cafe waiters warned departing guests not to go without hats for fear of atomic rain...
...television section of Germany's Bayerische Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) prepared to accept commercial advertising-but with a Teutonic difference. All commercial messages will be concentrated into one 25-minute period, and the remainder of each telecast day will then be sponsor-free...
...BEER will be marketed by Anheuser-Busch as competition for fast-growing local brews (80% of 1955 market), to replace the unsuccessful "Busch Lager." Called "Busch Bavarian," new beer will be lighter, less tangy than Budweiser, cost 5? less per bottle...