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...surplus U.S. wheat marooned in Gulf Coast ports. In West Germany 78,000 Volkswagen workers got an unwelcome two-day vacation from their assembly lines because the German auto company had 10,000 vehicles stranded in U.S. ports and another 5,300 waiting shipment on piers in Bremen and Hamburg...
...jokes about it. After Hitler's Nazis occupied Denmark, the country's press went on printing in captivity, but Tidende wasted few chances to snipe at the Germans in print. "Now the monkeys also have to work," read the caption beneath a picture in B.T., imported from Hamburg, that showed some presumably Aryan monkeys disporting in a cornfield. A Wehrmacht officer who demanded a story in Tidende on his regimental band was politely informed that he would have to pay 10 kroner for the "advertisement...
Augstein and four of his executives at the newsmagazine Der Spiegel were scooped up in a series of arrests beginning with a Keystone-cop raid on the magazine's Hamburg offices last October. The stated reason: "Suspicion of treason," for allegedly using classified government information in a story blasting the performance of the West German army. After sifting literally millions of papers in the defendants' homes and Der Spiegel's offices, the police glumly stood watch as the remaining editors published successive weekly editions, each of them acidly critical of the whole affair...
When first jailed in Hamburg, Augstein was allowed to make daily visits to Der Spiegel's office, but, to make sure that he did not try to escape or to destroy evidence, police escorted him everywhere, even to the men's room. Even so, he was free to write flaming anti-Adenauer editorials for Der Spiegel, the brisk, irreverent, and often sensational newsmagazine he founded in 1947. Moved last month to a more confining prison at Coblenz, Augstein is now undergoing daylong interrogations. But he still wears his own expensive suits instead of the usual prison uniform, orders...
That deficit would have been even greater had German exporters not pared their prices to the bone. Ruhr steelmakers have managed to hold their export customers only by charging lower prices outside the Common Market than within it. In Hamburg, the slumping shipyards glumly accept orders at below-cost prices rather than close down altogether...