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Unlike their counterparts in France, who boast a staunch ally in labor, West German students must usually go it alone in their stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
Nixdorfs success stems from his hunch that smaller companies have neither the money nor the need for big computers to handle bookkeeping and inventories. A physics major at the University of Frankfurt 16 years ago, he first peddled his idea by traveling from company to company on a motorbike and offering to build a small computer for only $8,000. He eventually found a customer in a Ruhr Valley utility firm. When Nixdorf and one assistant built an economical working computer for the company, so many orders quickly followed that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Since that...
Dispersed & Dismayed. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger warned the students that violence would be met with counter-measures-and it was. In Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and other German cities where demonstrators tried to blockade the regional printing plants of Publisher Axel Springer, whose papers are critical of the student leftists, police asked them to disperse, then went to work on them with bruising water cannon and truncheons. The students were not used to seeing their own blood flow, and many, moreover, were deeply shocked by the death from rioter-thrown missiles of Associated Press Photographer Klaus Frings, 32, and Munich Student...
...Last week at the Faema annual meeting in Milan, Valente proudly reported to shareholders (mostly family) that sales were $27.9 million in 1967 (up $6,500,000 from 1966). Faema coffee is now brewed in 54 countries; besides his Milan plant, Valente now has manufacturing operations in Barcelona, Paris, Frankfurt and Zurich...