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...only the Socialist opposition and the Free Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Dam Builders | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Free Traders. Still another potential profit area lies in silvichemicals, i.e., chemicals derived from wood. One big hope: turning lignin -the noncellulose element that constitutes 25% of a tree -into derivatives ranging from ersatz foam rubber to a substitute for carbon black in tires. Says West Virginia's research-minded Chairman David Luke: "The paper industry today generates some $12 billion in sales a year. If we took advantage of wood chemicals, we could double that- and the materials would be free." Because it forced them to seek new markets, the slump from which they are now emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paper: The Uses of Adversity | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg had never reported on Hollywood mores. With an air of almost embarrassing innocence, O'Hara introduces the cigar-chomping Hollywood producer who speaks in broken English, the star whose bed is in the public domain. His hero Hubie is something less than an ersatz, goyische Sammy Click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overexposure | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...member Ukrainian Dance Company, predictably, was a smash. Like the Moiseyev dancers before them, the Ukrainians offered ersatz folk dances-works grounded in folk traditions but theatricalized beyond anything that a wandering muzhik ever saw in a village square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 6 for Sol | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Last night's fake Mascle appeared after a five-week duel between the official House organ which uses a red shield, and an unidentified band of conspirators. Previous ersatz newsletters carried black shields and the official Mascle had warned Quincy men to trust only red ones. A spokesman for the official Mascle said he felt "compromised" last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy 'Mascles' War | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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