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Mayor Willy Brandt (1962) and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (1964) have been used up, so the most likely German-of-the-year is Franz Josef Strauss, former Minister of Defense. Herr Strauss' citation will read: "He has made the Wall of Shame almost as big a drawing card as the Bridge of Sighs...
...fall of 1962, the newsmagazine Der Spiegel published a cover story holding its alltime favorite enemy, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, responsible for a long list of deficiencies in West Germany's defenses. What happened next reminded Germans of a part of their heritage most of them would rather forget...
Squads of security police stormed into the magazine's Hamburg head quarters and its bureau in Bonn, ransacking files and arresting everyone in sight. Publisher Rudolf Augstein was held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched...
Talent & Work. San Francisco's Levi Strauss & Co., a family-owned firm that has grown from work pants to general men's sportswear, has nearly tripled its size under the aggressive direction of Walter A. Haas Jr., 49, who took over his father's old job in 1958. In the same year, Edward B. Rust, 46, became president of State Farm Mutual Insurance when Father Adlai stepped up to chairman; under Edward, the nation's largest automobile insurance firm has increased its policyholders from 5,500,000 to 8,500,000, raised its premium income...
...stimulating effect of the Jewish element is missing." Attracted by better pay and opportunity, thousands of young Austrian intellectuals have deserted the Danube for West Germany and Switzerland. Sniffs the brilliant young actor-satirist Helmut Qualtinger, who stayed behind: "Austria is the Disneyland of Europe. Nothing but Lippizaners, Strauss, Schlag, schmalz and zithers. And who really likes Sachertorte...