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...Boll has another voice. "This is a sad country without sadness," he wrote in the magazine Der Monat in 1965, describing postwar Germany. He explores that paradox with Kafkaesque laughter in a story about an argument between a veteran who has lost a leg and an impatient bureaucrat who denies the soldier a higher pension. "I think that you grossly underestimate my leg," the veteran remarks. Then he wryly proceeds to relate how, if he hadn't lost his leg, he would have run away and not warned some officers of an impending attack. And that has actually cost...
Before the last note of Der Rosenkavalier could be sung at Architect Gottfried Semper's century-old opera house that night, the first wave of bombers thundered over the lovely cupolas, towers and spires of the doomed city. In the next 14 hours, 1,400 British Lancasters and American Flying Fortresses dropped 3,749 tons of explosives. Some 650,000 incendiary bombs created a swirling "firestorm" that sucked everything around it into the inferno's center. Columns of smoke plumed three miles into the glowing sky as the city burned for eight nights. Corpses, some shrunk...
...From the basement of a St. Pauli curio shop has emerged the St. Pauli Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly 16-page paper with a circulation of 700,000, including 3,000 subscribers from as far away as South Africa and Australia...
...latest demands have been heard at Der Spiegel, West Germany's influential weekly newsmagazine. Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 46, himself a liberal, has responded by offering his employees 50% of Spiegel's ownership and profits and something of a voice in its management. By so doing, he may spare Spiegel the uproar that the movement has caused at three other major publications, the French dailies Figaro and Le Monde and the LIFE-like German magazine Der Stern...
...Mekong basin. We don't give a damn what their politics are." Representatives of the four nations refused to accept Umbricht, threatened to sever ties with the U.N. and hire their own man, an Asian from one of the Mekong countries. They finally approved William Van Der Oord, a U.N. official from The Netherlands-but only on an acting basis. The Mekong Committee insists that any permanent replacement for Schaaf must agree to remain with the project indefinitely. The U.N. is unlikely to agree to this ultimatum, and the bickering has probably made fund raising more difficult. The tragedy...