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...great unknown is the size of the pro-Nazi vote, supposed to be a large proportion of the 7,000,000 eligibles who failed to ballot in '49 and of the ex-Nazis since enfranchised. With the election nearing, all parties talked a tough nationalistic line. Fortnight ago, several clumps of penny-ante Hitlers got together in something called the German Reich Party, and have blatantly put forward such candidates as Dr. Werner Naumann, former state secretary of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, recently arrested (and released) for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bonn Republic and Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel...
This week one statistic told the whole impressive story: West Berlin food authorities handed out the two-millionth parcel to a needy East German. Thus, within a fortnight, more than 10% of the whole Soviet zone population have defied or evaded their government and risked arrest for a ten-pound package of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk...
...sunlight, he marveled to see that Vesuvius no longer wore the pennant of smoke he had known until his imprisonment; nobody had told him it stopped smoking nine years ago. A panel of ten judges listened to the impassioned pleading of Lawyer Augenti, the evidence of 35 witnesses. A fortnight ago they acquitted...
...both sides shall withdraw two .kilometers from this line so as to establish a Demilitarized Zone between the opposing forces." A truce line .and buffer zone were fixed once before, in November 1951. They had to be redrawn last week, after the ground-gaining Communist attacks of last fortnight. At truce time, 2,350 square miles of former North Korean territory are still left in U.N. hands, while the Communists get 850 square miles south of the 38th parallel-a net gain of 1,500 for the allies...
...golf for six years. This year she has won every tournament she has entered : the Texas Amateur, the Texas Public Links (where she set a course record of 70 and was five under men's par in the 36-hole final), and the Broadmoor tournament at Colorado Springs, fortnight ago. Lesbia, tanned and relaxed, has done all her winning despite a strikingly leisurely approach. "I guess I'm pretty lazy about practice. It's so hot here in the summer." In the cool of an evening, instead of hammering shots from a practice tee, Lesbia would just...