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...round-trip economy flight from England to Athens. In Germany, where the visitor might expect to rent a small Mercedes-Benz 200 for a reasonable sum, he will find that it costs $82.60 a day, plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs to plan his trip with pfennig-pinching, shilling-saving, franc-squeezing acumen. If he does so, the wary wayfarer can still get a lot for his shrunken buck. Items...
...undesirable." Although the Bonn government protested that the East German action was in violation of three treaties, border guards then prevented two other West German members of Parliament from entering the East. At the same time, many motorists seeking to drive into West Berlin via the East German Autobahn were being halted and subjected to searches by Communist police. The political forecast was for one of the sharpest freezes in relations between East and West Germany since the two states established diplomatic ties five years...
...whence came Spiro; Delaware River a test-tube for dynamite, gunpowder and napalm; New Jersey wasteland where poets rot as general practitioners; New York where seven million were swallowed by the Tall Ships; Connecticut state cops always on the other side of a divided highway, thank Grasso! The Massachusetts autobahn...
...easy exit. Rather than questions at the end of the East German Autobahn, Danforth's passport was quickly stamped, and he was allowed to drive unhindered into West Germany...
Perhaps the weirdest case in the KGB's history?and one of its dizziest triumphs?occurred in 1967, when three men stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...