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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...
...been contemplating legal action to suppress the N.D.P. But now that the Soviets have attacked it, West German political leaders are reluctant to take any action that might appear a concession to Soviet demands. The other problem came into being only last week when a group of Communists in Frankfurt publicly proclaimed the founding of a new party that pledges its allegiance to the democratic concepts of the West German constitution. The allegiance device is a tactical ploy that attempts to circumvent the West German law under which the old party was outlawed as an "antidemocratic party...
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...
...Crematorium. Many West Berlin businesses have set up shop elsewhere, with the result that the city has already been superseded as West Germany's financial center by Frankfurt and is now being challenged in the fashion industry by both Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days...
Died. Fritz Bauer, 64, Jewish lawyer who survived the horrors of Hitler's concentration camps to become West Germany's most renowned Nazi hunter; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt. Called the "conscience of his country," Bauer was named chief prosecutor of the state of Hesse in 1956, ultimately brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, including the notorious Auschwitz adjutant Karl Höcker. Died. Donald A. Hall, 69, engineering genius who designed Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in San Diego. "CAN YOU CONSTRUCT PLANE CAPABLE FLYING NONSTOP BETWEEN NEW YORK...