Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More of everything-particularly 'big, rich, fat, square Christmas books-seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed...
...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
Many factors have influenced the current revival of European investment in the U.S.-and not the least is American encouragement. European businessmen can find a California-development office in Frankfurt or go to Brussels to see representatives from Illinois, Ohio and New York. As part of its program to help offset the continuing outflow of U.S. dollars by increasing foreign investment, the Commerce Department last spring set up an office in Paris...
Three years later, as chief of the U.S. air forces in Europe LeMay was an architect of the Berlin airlift. One day LeMay flew to Berlin, found himself waiting on the runway for 40 minutes. Back in Frankfurt, he told his staff: Get it fixed " In three days, when he dropped in again, the delay had been reduced to five minutes. "See if you can get it better," he grunted...
Luminaries of the Czechoslovak literary world showed up in droves last week for the Frankfurt Book Fair, and no fewer than five of the nation's top film directors, including Jan Nemec, Milos Forman and Jan Kadar, met at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Film Festival last week and discussed their futures...