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Salon from Ford? By far the most powerful-and conspicuous-elite in present-day Germany is, of course, the Geld-aristokratie, the new industrial plutocracy whose yellow Mercedeses and Chris-Craft cruisers have largely replaced the Iron Cross and the dueling scar as status symbols. The new upper crust is personified by such tycoons as Rudolf August Oetker, who parlayed a baking powder business into a 100-company empire; Hans Giinther Sohl, who as boss of Thyssen since war's end has turned a family ironworks into West Germany's biggest steelmaker; and Munich's Rudolf Miinemann...
...poor, exclusive and excluded, professionals, laborers, domestics and unemployed. Within the academic community there are the intellectually concerned and the financially preoccupied. To talk of the "spirit of the Negro people" in Atlanta is to ignore the presence of a rigidly structured Negro society, led by an upper crust as jealous of its privileges, as pretentious and snobbish, as any upper crust anywhere in America...
...read with gusto your [March 29] story, where I learned that following Louis Vaudable, his business-minded wife, Maggie, has learned to fleece the wealthy American upper-crust families...
...water near the Turkish coast, off Cape Gelidonya. With the same finicky techniques that archaeologists use on land, the water-borne scientists photographed the ancient vessel from above by swimming over it with underwater cameras-a preliminary process already reported in the National Geographic. They marked the crust of lime that covered the remains and carefully chiseled it into chunks that were lifted 3 to the surface by inflated plastic balloons. Bit by bit the wreck was moved ashore and reassembled...
Lyttleton figures that the earth's compressible liquid core, which can be studied by means of earthquake waves, has caused the earth to shrink about 400 miles in diameter. Some 20 million square miles of crust have been tucked away in mountainous folds and wrinkles. How long this process will continue, Lyttleton does not know. But mountains are still rising, and Lyttleton estimates that if the entire earth were to liquefy, it would lose another 50 miles of diameter...