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...denial climaxed two months of sharply rising clamor against him. The affair had actually begun four years ago, when East Germany's Communist propagandists handed out barrack blueprints that allegedly carried Lübke's signature. Almost no one took the charges very seriously until last January, when Der Stern, West Germany's largest weekly magazine, published the testimony of a U.S. handwriting specialist that the signature was indeed Lübke's. The country's restless students seized on the white-haired old man as a symbol of all that they find wrong with...
...peasants must erect their own thatch-roofed houses, dig a protective ditch around the site, and crown it with a dirt wall and barbed wire. The 70 families that "volunteered" were given land already cleared by bulldozers; those who had been reluctant to leave were moved into barrack-like structures at the edge of the forest...
...Peking were in major retreats at home. In both cases the battle was over agriculture-that individualistic and capricious pursuit that has defied Communist planners from the beginning. Moscow proposed to toughen up on the peasantry. Peking confessed to moving too fast in thrusting thousands of peasants into barrack communes...
...Barrack Talk. At 60 Ludwig Erhard's plump cheeks fairly glisten with the new German look of wellbeing. But nine years ago he was to be found, in frazzled pepper-and-salt suit and dirty shirt, in a little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers...
...system of teaching poets is simple. "We believe that if you begin with a person who has talent, you can make a better poet faster by exposing him to real criticism and putting him in contact with a community of poets." After a rugged session in the converted barren barrack that houses the workshop, a few students have felt like quitting. But most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle's blunt teaching methods...