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Germany's Lufthansa, commercial cousin of Hitler's Luftwaffe, will soon be air borne again. Last week in Cologne, its board of directors held their first postwar meeting in a bomb-battered building. Since the surrender of 1945, Germans have been forbidden to own or operate aircraft, but the ban will soon be lifted. Lufthansa's aircraft (four U.S. Convairs and four Constellations) are due for early delivery, its prewar chief of operations is back as manager, and the pilots are in harness again. Buttressed by government subsidies, Lufthansa's aircraft will soon be taking...
...South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are forbidden to enter any military alliance that might defer their eventual submission to Communism...
Only one thing was sure: the trial was no ordinary race. Drivers would lose points for passing secret check points too early or too late; they would be penalized for drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...
...expedition leader, Colonel Sir John Hunt, told Izzard: "I am forbidden to tell you anything, and that applies as well to all members of the expedition." The British ambassador promised to be equally unhelpful and kept his promise so brilliantly that frozen-out newsmen later called him "the extra-special correspondent of the Times." Soon the expedition set out from the Nepal capital weighted down with 7½ tons of equipment. Izzard sadly watched his story climb away from him. It was going to take place three weeks away as a man walks (nearly 200 miles over murderously wild, roadless...
Launches filled with rubberneckers, he complained, were interfering with the Russian shells. "Here you ask launches to get out of the way," said Gippenreuter, throwing up his hands. "In our country we would have forbidden such things." What else did the Russians find different about England? "We find it hard to understand these signs we keep seeing that say 'Private Property.' As along the bank, where it says you cannot do fishing.-In our country we fish where we like. We have no private property." And there was something else: "Here only a narrow stratum of society...