WEST GERMANY: The Old Man's Anger

In his Black Forest mountain retreat last week. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stared without pleasure at his beloved Rhine, stalked through the forest side by side with his priest son Paul in somber silence. For the first time since he began to vacation at Bühlerhöhe six years ago, its charms failed to soothe the 80-year-old Chancellor's troubled spirits. "He talks of many things," said an intimate. "First he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks of the weather. Then he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks about food....

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