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Military Objective. Some of Germany's new rich have cultivated their indulgences along with their undoubted abilities. In the vicinity of industrial Frankfurt, the most popular indulgence was Rosemarie Nitribitt, a big-eyed and notably globoid blonde. Rosie's nest was feathered with Persian rugs, green velvet chairs, thick draperies, a multitude of mirrors, and a French double bed. Her closets were jammed with Paris-label dresses and 40 pairs of Italian shoes; and she always kept handy at least 150,000 marks (about $35,000) in cash...
...students who go by bicycle, motorcycle or hitchhike, and often camp out. Another 60% are the middleclass, ranging from teachers to small businessmen, who travel by car, railroad or bus and live in small hotels and boarding houses. The remaining 10% are the wealthy, the Ruhr industrialists and Frankfurt bankers, who make their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust. Travel bureaus...
...European operations into the common market. H. J. Heinz bought a Dutch plant to produce its 57 varieties for Europe, and Du Pont is hunting for plants in Holland and Belgium. Other branches or new factories have been set up by Argus Chemical in Brussels, Consolidated Electrodynamics in Frankfurt, International Harvester in Heidelberg. Coty International, with branches in three European countries, in February formed an 80%-owned subsidiary in West Germany. Says Coty President Philip Cortney: "As manufacturers, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the common market...
...critics tried to take a longer view, and delivered some hedged but daring predictions. German University Professor Wilhelm Boeck concluded: "An artistic event of intercontinental size that will surely affect the development of European painting. It places America next to Paris as a first-class power." Said Frankfurt Critic Albert Schulze Vellinghausen: "It's new and it's strong and it's important...
...phone calls were unmonitored. and most newsmen dodged the censor by phoning their stories at the top of their lungs to colleagues in London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt. Said the A.P.'s Relman Morin, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner and topflight combat correspondent of World War II and Korea: "If any A.P. man is invalided out of Beirut, it likely will be because he lost his voice...