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...highly automated Kloeckner-Werke's wide strip mill in Bremen, 90 West German workers are turning out flat bar steel at the rate of more than 110,000 tons a month...
...French Line's new, $88 million France, which will make its first Atlantic crossing next February, will have a rock-'n'-roll dance hall (Club des Jeunes), electric bowling alleys, shooting galleries, and soda fountains for teenagers. Passengers on the North German Lloyd's Bremen can take warm, hydrotherapeutic baths in the ship's man-made spa. ("The Lloyd line," says one official, "goes in for good clean fun.") American Export Lines are preparing lowbudget, two-week beachcomber cruises to Caribbean ports on the Atlantic, for which the lines will install barbecue pits for outdoor...
...With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward agreed to give up his positions as president, sole owner, chief engineer and designer of the firm he founded 33 years ago and built into the sixth-largest automaker in Germany. The Bremen city council will take over Borgward and its subsidiaries to try to save the 19,000 jobs-some 23% of Bremen's work force-by turning Borgward into a publicly owned stock company...
Last week Bremen had on display a huge (305 square yards) section of Lurçat's Le Chant du Monde, which will eventually be almost double that in size. "All the monumental arts," says Lurçat, "are having some kind of renaissance. In Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Caracas, Geneva, it is the same-the architects are making huge new buildings with great nude walls that cry out for tapestries." Le Chant du Monde may never decorate such a wall, for its most logical destination would be a French museum, where it would hang as an example...
Those were the days when aviators were known by the adventures they logged. When the German plane Bremen crash-landed off Labrador after its historic east-west Atlantic crossing in 1928, Quesada and a young captain named Ira Eaker flew north to help save the crew. At one point during that mission, Quesada got lost flying above the clouds. He began thinking "how marvelous it would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark...