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...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...feasible are trips by earthmen to other solar systems? They're practically impossible, according to Nobel-prize-winning physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor...
Doing Business. This time, Adenauer came to do business. He spent 13 hours in on-and-off discussions so private that even West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder was kept mostly in the dark about what went on. After one of Adenauer's meetings with Kennedy, Schröder approached the Chancellor to ask what the talk had been about, got a frosty brushoff. "My dear fellow," said Adenauer, "it was a private conversation. If I told you, it would no longer be private...
...offered by Adenauer as a sop to the Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom. His successor, sharp-tongued Gerhard Schröder (see following story), was angrily opposed by West Berlin's Christian Democrats, since he is said to believe that West Berlin is "indefensible." The Free Democrats also captured five other government ministries: Finance, Justice, Treasury, Development and Refugees' Affairs...
...picked as West Germany's new Foreign Minister is a tall, smoothly handsome Saarlander who owes his job and much of his political style to Konrad Adenauer. But Gerhard Schröder, 51, is far more insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only...