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Though many Germans are deeply conscious of war guilt (see below) and few are foolish enough to think reunification an immediate possibility, no German politician is prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the Socialists, who angrily accused him of suffering from a "mental short circuit." Brandt's obvious campaign plan on the reunification issue: to accuse Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats of not sincerely desiring reunification and of doing too little to keep the hope of it alive in East German...
...professional classes had a higher-than-average incidence of high blood pressure, scoring 120%. but Jeeves outdid them with 147%. The perfect butler achieves his imperturbability. Dr. Logan suggested, at the cost of high blood pressure. So do hotel and restaurant workers synagogue keepers, baggage clerks and washroom attendants. "They are sufferers for the most part from other people's impatience," said Dr. Logan...
...something new in the way of digs! I think Richard will get the nomination, but the election-It's going to be very, very tough." . . . So great is the affection of Manager Cus D'Amato for his fighter, World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, that D'Amato outdid his customary generosity in giving Patterson a little something befitting the man's rank. At a testimonial banquet in Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony...
Back-Door Coverage. On H. & B.'s performance alone, NBC scored a clear beat over CBS and ABC, which slid along on the scented oils of John C. Daly; but NBC also pretty much outdid the other networks in overall reporting and picture coverage. CBS jumped around nervously, interviewing its own floor men, picking up remote shots of delegates until viewers expected to see the screen dissolve into a creepee-peepee interview with a delegate who had got lost in a Pasadena supermarket. NBC had its own dogged, creepee-peeping reporters on the floor-notably Martin Agronsky, Sander Vanocur...
Illinois' Liberal Democrat Paul Douglas, in his distress over the supposed inadequacies of the bill, turned for solace to T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men: "This is the way the world ends-Not with a bang but a whimper." And Pennsylvania's Democratic Joe Clark outdid all the melodrama by telling how he had surrendered his "sword" to the South's chief strategist, Richard Russell of Georgia. "Surely," cried Joe Clark, "the roles of Grant and Lee at Appomattox have been reversed." And then Clark wound up with a touching recital of four stanzas from...