WEST GERMANY: The Sign of the Sausage

Deep in the heart of every good German is an abiding conviction that as a succulent symbol of wellbeing, there is nothing to equal the sausage. Some Frenchmen maintain that when Germans cannot sleep, they count sausages rather than sheep. In West Germany last week, as 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more...

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