I’d never been on a plane before, nor been out of the U.S., not even to downtown Chicago, where my taxi was headed, on Dec. 31, 1963. It was one of those nerve-wracking times you just grit your teeth ...

FOR the past year or so West Germany has been marking time in a political sense. After the controversy over Dr. Adenauer’s retirement from the chancellorship and the choice of a successor, the West ...