West Germany: The Death of a Friend And Other Matters

Interrupting a Lake Como holiday. Konrad Adenauer hurried home last week for the funeral of one of his oldest friends. Cologne Banker Robert Pferdmenges, 82. To another man, the occasion might have served as a reminder of his own advancing years, but not to der Alte. At 86, after 13 years as Chancellor, Adenauer still relishes the power that came to him so late in life—and, though he has agreed in writing to step down in the fall of 1963, he is now looking for a way to cling to that power a...