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Alas, poor Oleg! When Soviet intelligence raided his apartment, said Pravda, they found three miniature cameras for photographing documents, code books, chemically treated paper for sending invisible messages, radios to receive instructions from spy headquarters in Frankfurt and transmit "information about the U.S.S.R.'s scientific, technical, war and political problems." Why, with such equipment, Oleg resorted to such clumsy devices as scrawling signs on lampposts and hiding information behind apartment-house radiators. Pravda's thriller writer does not explain. It would never happen in a James Bond story...
...field of study, and for maps as tools of study. The first paragraph of his contribution, however, describes the present state of the Widener map collection with something less than his usual objectivity. I fear that my old friend (how long it seems since we first met at the Frankfurt book fair!) is becoming a little senile, or perhaps he has been working too late at nights on his Atlas...
...test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late in London to start his tests. Happily he still had plenty of time to take samples. Sniffing the air, Prindle marveled: "There are not many smogs like this one! It sets off a beautiful cough...
...onetime rector of Frankfurt University and former No. 2 man in the West German Foreign Office, Hallstein is possessed of formidable erudition, but no one in his U.S. audiences last week had much difficulty in understanding what he was saying. Captured at Cherbourg during World War II service as a Wehrmacht lieutenant, Hallstein polished up his American vernacular in a P.W. camp in Mississippi. Conceded by all hands to be a skilled negotiator, he is a party-shunning bachelor who devotes twelve hours a day to his job and is held by many to be a dull fellow...
Krages' nemesis was Frankfurt's Dresdner Bank, one of West Germany's three biggest (the other two: the front-ranking Deutsche Bank and the Commerzbank, now third largest in Germany). Caught with heavy margin loans in the recent fall of the German stock market, Krages scrambled for fresh cash to protect at least part of his holdings, finally got it on harsh terms dictated by Dresdner. To fatten its own portfolio, the bank wanted Krages' shares in a major chemical maker called Chemie-Verwaltungs, A.G., and in Germany's biggest coal company, Gelsen-kirchener Bergwerks...