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...that matter, do the Europeans themselves. American officials do not like the term, notes Paul Baudler of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt, "but if you talk to a German banker, he'll talk about 'flight capital.' " A long list of gloomy economic realities -slumping stock values on European exchanges, high unemployment rates, the rise of left-wing parties and the inability of liberal, middle-of-the-road governments to deal effectively with these problems-has prompted a chorus of Spenglerian gloom from European business leaders...
...FRANKFURT. 14.2 million passengers last year. Averages 600 landings and takeoffs daily. Two runways, 63 airlines. Delays: average half an hour. Accessibility: good. Allow 20 to 30 min. by car or cab ($10) for seven-mile ride downtown. Excellent train and bus service (400). Flow Through: brisk, although no sidewalk checkin. Baggage carts. Single terminal traversed by moving sidewalk in 4 min. Longest walk: 1,800 ft. Baggage check-out and immigration: efficient. Customs: you could bring in an elephant. Hotels/Motels: fair. Two hotels, the Sheraton and Steigenberger, at airport. Amenities: everything imaginable. Three snack bars, one coffee shop. Twelve...
...world marketplace of commerce and ideas, TIME hosted 54 executives of major European advertising firms on a visit to our New York headquarters. The week included a series of seminars and informal chats with editors, writers and executives. Eric Sidler, a partner in the Charles Barker agency of Frankfurt, summed up the value of these gatherings in a discussion of international advertising styles: "The British have great humor and creativity, the Germans do terrific research, Swiss and Italian design is without peer. What U.S. advertising does best is bring everything together...
...prearrangement, Ulrike Meinhof, then 35 and a leftist journalist, sat at a table pretending to read. Studying near by, under armed guard, was a notorious anarchist she had interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores. Baader had won permission from prison authorities to study at the library. Suddenly three people burst into the library and sprayed the room with bullets and tear gas. The escape plan worked. Baader and Meinhof, now his accomplice in rebellion, leaped out a window...
...daring crimes across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...