Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. In a readable full-length biography, a German historian tells the story of the aristocratic colonel whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by freakish chance...
...that reason-have yet to mount a major rebellion on the scale of Watts or Detroit. Yet, like other ghetto dwellers, they have their grievances. In the Inner Core, as Milwaukee's Negro slum is called, unemployment is more than twice as high as in the historically German and Polish districts that surround it. Housing is decrepit in the Core, educational levels as low as in Harlem or Cleveland's Hough...
Heading up the West German mission to Moscow was Dr. Karl König, West Berlin's Economics Minister. Like the other West German visitors, König could hardly hide his glee when Russian designers flocked to German displays. They sketched and photographed everything, from the wildest mod look to the more functional fashions that Russian women favor. "Even seamstresses couldn't believe how we put our coats and dresses together," said one West Berliner. "It was all I could do to keep them from tearing the garments apart to see how they were made." Buyers were...
...tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands that a status car carry a high price-if not, it loses much of its prestige," says Von Heydekampf...
...model T.T., the Spider and the Prinz 4, a little bug below Volkswagen price and power level, have a mere 3.2% share of the domestic market and 6.4% of German exports. In the first seven months of 1967, NSU car sales dropped 27% from the same period last year. Volkswagen too was feeling the pinch: in July both Opel (G.M.) and Taunus (Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were...