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...Munich there was a butcher named Strauss who bought poultry from a breeder named Heinrich Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a photographic shop; a frequent visitor was a pale man with a wispy mustache named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there...
...Tiger Tank. Like a great many other Germans, Defense Minister Strauss learned about armies the hard way. The butcher's son dodged the early Nazi draft by entering Munich University, where he topped the examination lists, joined a Catholic students' organization and brawled with young Nazis. When the call-up for World War II carne in 1939, he talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia...
...with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often...
Taxes & Dividends. Before World War II, Germany had a central stock exchange in Berlin. Now there are eight independent regional exchanges-in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Bremen-which traded $1.5 billion worth of stocks and bonds last year v. only $200 million in 1951. Twice since 1948 Diüsseldorf's stock and bond traders have been forced to move into bigger quarters because trading has grown...
...white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over to the man in the third row and gave him a quick lecture before the photographers could focus. McCormack continued, "Disagree without being disagreeable...