Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle

(See Cover) In that racketing, rocketing free half of the world that has otherwise never had it so good, inflation vexes more people, weakens more economies...

West Germany: The Heart of Europe

WEST GERMANY (See Cover) It is hard to imagine a figure less martial than West Germany's new Chancellor. Round of shape, soft in manner, sanguine in...

Foreign News: The Stay-at-Home

For weeks hard-driving Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's portly, pink-faced Minister of Economics, had been looking forward to the day when he would fly off to New...

WESTERN EUROPE: Up to the Mark

In a Europe caught up in restrictive trade barriers, West Germany's hardhitting Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard is a rarity: an influential man who...

West Germany: The Sincere Chancellor

At home Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was under heavy attack from the Socialist opposition as a bungler who had failed his first serious foreign political test...

West Germany: Waiting for the Call

Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, that pudgy and popular fellow, has been itching to get his hands on the top job in West Germany, and can hardly wait for...

West Germany: Fragile China

With national elections due next September, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Christian Democrats can only hope that the next six months will go better for them...

West Germany: Sweet Success

Jovial and popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, after years of patiently and impatiently waiting, last week finally got his party's promise to make him...

West Germany: Plagued by Plenty

Prosperous West Germany seems to be on its way to overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading exporter, but the prospect does not make Chancellor Ludwig Erhard...

The Pressdency: Waging Peace

THE PRESIDENCY Before his death, President Kennedy had held several political strategy sessions, made it clear that he meant to base his 1964 campaign on a...