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Should they feel snookered by the overheated description of a totally fictitious "Helga Schiller"-ostensibly born in Bremen, raised by an accountant and his actress wife, a "homeless woman at home in supertechnology's global village" who, at 21, is toying with the idea of a sadomasochistic relationship? Marlene, 26, is actually a sometime Munich actress and the girl friend of one of Germany's most successful record producers, Monty Lüfther. On the other hand, have any Penthouse fans actually read the "Helga" copy...
...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...
...Bowen, 54, looks like a movie version of a small-town general practition-er-which he is. But besides being a physician from Bremen, Ind., 20 miles from South Bend, Bowen is an astute politician who has been speaker of Indiana's G.O.P.-dominated house of representatives since 1967. Bowen and his courtly Democratic opponent, former (1961 -65) Governor Matthew E. Welsh, 60, both had the same prescription for Indiana: a reduction in property taxes, to be made possible by hikes in state sales and income taxes and increased state aid to local schools. The campaign thus focused...
...Bremen, Ohio...
Although Brinnin is a registered poet, he finds this quality hard to pin down. But he knows it was there, and even a reader who never saw the Mauretania or the Bremen is inclined to accept his word. One of the narrative's fascinations is that for anyone whose forebears arrived in the U.S. within the past 150 years, a bit of family history is fleshed out. Brinnin is eloquent about the horrors of steerage, and he makes even the magnificence of first class on the old sail-equipped sidewheelers sound impressively grim...