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...Otto J. Bachman, who last night celebrated his 25th birthday, is the first German holder of the James Bryant Conant--Class of 1928 Scholarship. A student at the Free University of Berlin, Bachman is now living in a five-man suite in Eliot House...
There were no such glum reflections in the Kremlin. Scarcely had Adenauer disappeared than a swarm of East Germans, headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl, flew in as if on cue In the next few days, the Kremlin resounded with revelry as masters and puppets staged a weird, diplomatic Walpurgisnacht dance of triumph, like so many witches cackling over some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result...
...dust. This was the Great Dust Bowl of the north, where thin-coated sheep could be bought for just $2 apiece and craggy-ribbed cows for only $12. "We couldn't raise a thing, not even weeds-not a thing," recalled North Dakota's U.S. Representative Otto Krueger, a dry-land farmer from Fessenden. "I remember it got so bad, with so many people moving out, that one year I counted 675 quarter-sections of land acquired by the county because they had been abandoned with the taxes left unpaid...
...East Berlin's landing field, Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl wrung Khrushchev's hand and anxiously inquired where the East German regime stood. Grotewohl had been alarmed by the Soviet invitation to Adenauer; he feared to be sacrificed in a Kremlin deal with Bonn. Khrushchev propped the puppets up, at least temporarily. "The score is one to nothing in favor of the [East German] Republic," he told Grotewohl...
...Russell Kelce, 58, was elected president of Peabody Coal Co., the nation's No. 2 commercial coal producer (No. 1: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal), succeeding Otto Gressens, who became board chairman. Son of a Pittsburg, Kans. miner, Kelce went into the pits at 15, by the time he was 22 owned his own mine in Oklahoma. In 1924 Kelce moved into small Sinclair Coal, which actually owned no mines and acted only as a coal seller. In a few years he made the Sinclair group into one of the nation's biggest producers, with 17 mines in six states...