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We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.…
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(Encyclopedia) Weizsäcker, Richard Karl Freiherr von, 1920–2015, German political leader. After serving in World War II, Weizsäcker earned a law degree from the Univ. of Göttingen (1953), then worked…
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