Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, most East German youths remain ideologically uncommitted; Ulbricht has not managed to produce any Red Guards. They want to save up for a motorbike, grow mini-Beatle haircuts and twist to Western rock-'n'-roll tunes. They resent East Germany's enforced isolation, which denies them the chance to read almost all West German writers and even cuts off the flow of literature from such slightly more liberal Communist regimes as those in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The few Western works that are allowed in are avidly read. Among the favorites: John F. Kennedy's Profiles...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
...finished work is designed to revolve once every eight minutes and is powered by a hidden ¼-h.p. motor whose reduction shaft is embedded be low its 8-ft.-high triangular base. In mathematical terms, Infinity is based on the Möbius strip, named for the 19th century German mathematician A. F. Möbius. It consists of a loop twisted on itself so that it contains one continuous edge and one plane. As the great form revolved majestically for the first time last week, the early spring sun glinted off its evolving planes, creating an impression of perpetual...
Died. Fritz Schaffer, 78, German economist and Konrad Adenauer's Fi nance Minister from 1949 to 1957, an ascetic Bavarian who saddled West Germany with the stiffest taxes in Europe, fiercely resisted what he considered nonessential government spending, and was largely responsible for the deutsche mark's becoming one of the world's hardest currencies; of a heart attack; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...unemployed back to work, it still seems determined on more mitun. Last month it was announced that the government-backed Zim Lines' gleaming liner Shalom, long a money loser even though she is the pride of Israel's fleet, would soon be sold to a West German shipping line. "We have got to make the economy pay its own way," says Finance Ministry Director-General Jacob Arnon. "We lived for ten years without paying anything...