Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had feared that the Communists were starting a new round of "salami" tactics against Berlin, and last week proved him right. Fortnight ago, Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's East German regime declared a five-day period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east...
...dream." Elliptically, he alluded to his own European dream: a French-led political confederation of the Common Market nations in which joint policy would be hammered out in periodic meetings of the Common Market premiers and reviewed by "an Assembly formed of delegates from national parliaments." (Snapped one German newspaper: "Instead of an integrated Europe. De Gaulle wants to restore a Europe of Fatherlands.") To get his scheme under way, De Gaulle had a dramatic proposal: "a formal European referendum so as to give this launching the character of popular support and initiative that is indispensable...
...Gourmet Exploration ($40, lunch extra) : Visits to African, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish restaurants. The semester winds up with a class discussion on "low-caloric method...
VOLKSWAGEN SALES grow despite success of U.S. compacts. World's fourth-largest auto producer, reports worldwide sales up 30% in 1959 to record $835 million. Volkswagen now accounts for 40.5% of all West German auto production. Volkswagen sales in the U.S.: 120,000 autos in 1959 v. 78,000 in 1958. Sales this year are up from...
CINEMA Under Ten Flags. The German Navy's Van Heflin v. British Admiral Charles Laughton in a better than fair sea-fight thriller, based on one of the more curious naval footnotes to World...