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...elderly Ossis to whom life in reunited Germany hasn't always proved kind. Hubertus Knabe - the director of Hohenschönhausen, a former G.D.R. prison and now a memorial - argues that the success of Die Linke in the eastern states reveals a dangerous form of amnesia. His book Honeckers Erben (Honecker's Heirs) depicts Die Linke as direct descendants of G.D.R. leader Erich Honecker's repressive communist regime. "It's a very human quality to whitewash the past," he says. But he adds the warning: "It means one can't learn from history...
...Heinrich K. Erben of Bonn University's Institute of Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become...
Contacting Competitors. The man who implicated Cordiner is George E. Burens, 55, company vice president who was sentenced to 30 days in jail and then lost his job. Burens testified that when he took over the switchgear division in 1951, he was briefed by Henry Van Erben, then G.E. executive vice president. According to Burens, Van Erben told him that the "only way to operate the apparatus business was to meet with competitors and set prices." When Burens balked-he opposed price fixing primarily on practical, not moral, grounds-and asked about the company's anticollusion policy, Van Erben...
...full 70th year for Painter Chagall. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art staged an extensive exhibit of his work; two new incisive books have been published, Marc Chagall: His Graphic Work, edited by Franz Meyer (Harry N. Abrams; $12.50), and Marc Chagall, by Walter Erben (Praeger...
...General Electric Co. named three executive vice presidents,* in a move to decentralize authority. The three: HENRV V. ERBEN, 52, formerly general manager of the apparatus division, who will have charge of heavy industrial equipment HARDAGE L. ANDREWS, 61, formerly vice president in charge of G.E.'s appliance and merchandise department, who wil supervise small industrial equipment; anc ROY W. JOHNSON, 45, formerly boss of G.E.'s affiliated manufacturing companies who will boss appliances and electronics