Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luftwaffe. Of a scheduled 100,000 men, the air force now has about 64,000, nearly all volunteers. Under command of Lieut. General Josef Kammhuber, boss of all German night fighters in World War II, the Luftwaffe is already airborne and climbing fast. So far, five Luftwaffe wings are flying F-86s and F-845 for NATO. After keeping the French on tenterhooks for two years over a possible order for their Mirage III fighter, Strauss plumped last year for the U.S.-built F-IO4 as the Luftwaffe's main-line plane. The first trainer models have already been...
...school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost...
...breakfast (tea, dark bread with butter and white cheese) with his wife Marianne and the baby at his villa above the Rhine. By the time his black BMW delivers him at the office at 8:45, his staff has already clipped the news from 140 German and foreign newspapers. Strauss plows through it all. Working at top speed on a schedule prepared 14 days in advance, he fires machine-gun orders at subordinates, sees people, attends meetings, dashes off to the Bundestag. He knocks off at 7:30 or 8, when he usually goes out with his wife...
VOLKSWAGEN SHARES will go on sale next month to West German families in the lower-and middle-income groups. The shares will be limited to five per family, cost 350 marks ($83.30) each. As a result, 60% of Volkswagen will be owned by small investors; the other 40% will be split between the federal government and the state of Lower Saxony where Volkswagen factory is located...
Lust for Lies. The choice is significant; to Keller the state is not necessarily a higher concern than art, but serving the state is a high honor, and bohemianism a worthless existence. It is not hard to see the beginning of Germanic nationalism in the fascination that order, group effort and government have for Keller and the Swiss and German townspeople he describes. The author is at his most rhapsodic as he tells of the incredible organization of a pre-Lenten carnival, or rambles on about a dream in which Identity of the Nation is represented by crowds tramping purposefully...