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Common Market businesses have gone on a merger bender. Germany's Messerschmitt and France's Fouga are jointly making aircraft. Italy's Innocenti and Germany's Hans Glas are making cars together, Luxembourg's Dostert and Germany's Wilhelm Seibel truck trailers. Agfa and France's Vedette are collaborating on cameras. Eurista is a new FrenchGerman coalition making electrical resistors. Gasoline is now distributed in France and Germany by Desmarais. The Société Française PIC and Krupp recently signed an agreement to build a petroleum plant. "Within...
...Three new models of Hans Glas's Goggomobil. The T 600 line is expected to sell for about $1,000, has a bigger (25-h.p.) engine than the older models, goes faster (up to 70 m.p.h.) but burns more gas (maximum: 45 miles...
Died. Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey, 81, whose nondescript force of some 3,000 clerks, signalmen, and U.S. railway engineers prevented a breakthrough to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918; in Portsmouth, England. Moving quickly as the Germans threatened, Carey and his motley crew held out for six days until relieved. It earned him a personal commendation before Parliament from Prime Minister Lloyd George...
Obviously Marshal Tito was just a square. He wasn't hep and neither was Yugoslavia's newspaper Glas. Said Glas: jazz is "senseless, impossible combinations of sounds calculated to arouse the lowest, most atavistic and long-suppressed instincts in man." Worse than that, added Glas, it is "music conditioned and tied up with capitalist society...
Flaunted Funerals. Ever since A.M.G. took over Trieste, Tito's PNOO (Regional Liberation Committee), backed by a local secret-police force on NKVD lines, has been in underground opposition to it. The battle reached its height in early July when the editor of Glas Savozaikov, the Slovene paper, was fined 200,000 lire for publishing false rumors about A.M.G. "calculated to excite and alarm the people...