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...help war victims find relatives and friends in East Germany. Since 1948, RIAS has put on the air the names of more than 50,000 missing persons-mostly children, D.P.s or P.W.s-and received 91,700 letters. Last week RIAS and Suchdienst announced that they had found their 5,000th missing person behind the Iron Curtain-a lost son who had been reported missing in action at Stalingrad eleven years...
Canada last week admitted its 1,000,000th immigrant since World War II. No other country except the U.S. has received as many new settlers in the past seven years...
...ragged version of Secret Love and then went into a tap dance that showed more vigor than precision. When she had finished, she stood, thin-armed and anxious, staring toward the control room where Director Lloyd Marx and Associate Producer Wanda Ellis were judging the auditions for the 1,000th performance of the Original Amateur Hour...
...Wolfsburg, now coming into production. It will boost output from 750 to 1,000 cars a day. On top of that, a new distributor-owned assembly plant in Belgium (needed because of import restrictions) this week started up. And Australia, which last week got its first Volkswagen-the 200,000th exported since 1947-will soon have an assembly plant of its own, with an ultimate capacity of 1,000 cars a month...
...gift tables will be more richly covered than ever before," 75-year-old Karl Meier bleakly shook his head, packed whatever he could into inconspicuous bundles and creaked furtively across the boundary into West Berlin. Herr Meier, a pensioned railwayman, thereby achieved a statistical distinction: he was the 300,000th refugee to escape to West Berlin in 1953, the biggest year of flight since World War II. The refugee rollcall for the preceding four years...