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...Ocean & Rail. Air fares are 8% higher than last year for first class ($900 New York to London round trip); up also are economy flights ($486 New York-London round trip). Planes are virtually booked solid until July 15. Cheapest scheduled flights are on Icelandic Airlines DC-45 and -6s between New York and London ($405.20 round trip). Other bargains: round-trip tickets that allow unlimited stops en route. With a jet flight from New York to Rome on a round-trip economy ticket ($620.30), a tourist can choose stops in 24 cities in eleven countries. Charter flights that...
...early Nazi adherent. As chief of the Gestapo's Jewish Section, he drew up the lists of names, marshaled the freight cars that carried the victims to the camps, perfected the methods of slaughter-finally settling on "Zyklon B" as the gas that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women...
...main complaint: inaction, resulting from lack of interest and shortage of funds. The first of the modern, effective antileprosy drugs did not reach Samoa until 1951, eight years late. Today, this drug (DDS, for diaminodiphenyl-sulfone) is still the only one available there because it is the cheapest, though Dr. Donohugh believes later drugs would be more effective. And the tumbledown barracks building under a banyan tree. used as a leprosarium, is in such disrepair that Dr. Donohugh suggested the only thing to do was to burn it down...
...Neckermann products, carried out a "voluntary" boycott even after a court ruled in Neckermann's favor. Result: Neckermann set up a network of his own repair shops throughout Germany, decided to go into other appliances. In 1954 he diversified into TV sets (selling for $100 below the cheapest set on the market), later added sewing machines, auto accessories, food and liquor...
...Karlsruhe, West Germany, their hotel manager watched suspiciously as their caravan arrived, later spotted drip-dry shirts hanging on lines in their rooms and stomped off muttering, "Gypsies!" But as they made their gypsy-like way through 55 concerts in eleven countries-eating picnic lunches, staying in the cheapest hotels, often sleeping in their cars-their reputation grew and preceded them...