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...Heggemann jetted to Athens and after an intense hunt found an Athens dry cleaner who remembered sitting behind a man resembling Zech-Nenntwich on a TWA flight to Egypt. The newsmen found the fugitive in the 22nd Cairo hotel they visited. Total time for the search: eight days. Their story made headlines around the world, but Zech-Nenntwich rejected their advice to return to Germany and serve out his sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newssleuths Get Their Man | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...free quiet over continuously welded tracks. Its 100-m.p.h., all-first-class superexpresses, like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly clean cars and hot meals in a diner. Last year 20,000 motorists stowed both themselves and their autos aboard overnight trains, slept their way to their destinations. No wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Love Those Rails | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

Sucking a Straw. Taking advantage of vacuums is nothing new; everyone who sucks a straw, works a pump or runs a vacuum cleaner uses the principle. But the first big breakthroughs in efficient methods of using vacuums industrially did not come until World War II, and improvements and refinements have piled up so quickly since then that industry has achieved vacuums equivalent to conditions in outer space. While dozens of companies turn out vacuum-making equipment, including such giants as G.E. and Westinghouse, the biggest in the field is Rochester's Consolidated Vacuum, a subsidiary of Bell & Howell, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Useful Void | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Some women do not bother to wear gloves at all, merely keep them in hand, and make the rounds clasping the evidence of their well-bred intentions like a badge. After several such wearings, most gloves begin to go limp, soon acquire wrinkles and creases no cleaner can cure. One Way Out. But, astonishingly enough, there is hardly a woman who would be caught dead without gloves. Why? Largely because of etiquette. Even as "bold" and "modern" a social arbiter as Amy Vanderbilt, who last year went so far as to sometimes permit picking up chicken bones by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: To Keep Your Hand In | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...Virgin Lands" in Siberia. "The first time I went because I was a Komsomol member and they told me it was my duty," he said. "But the second time I went because I wanted to. I had seen something I liked there: a better side of life, a cleaner side of people that comes out when you work together out of doors, when you get up at six in the morning to plant crops and biuld houses. Here in Leningrad things are old. There is much culture, much talk. Like Western Europe. But in Siberia we had something exciting, something...

Author: By Adam Hochschild, | Title: Russian Youth Found Idealistic But Angered By Country's Flaws | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

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