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COAL. U.S. mines are now so automated that coal is one of the nation's most competitive exports. "It is literally true," says Commerce Department Economist Paul McGann, "that we can mine coal and ship it to Hamburg for less than the Germans can produce it." If the Six could be cajoled into lowering their tariffs and relaxing their quotas, U.S. coal exports would quickly jump to three times their current $350 million annual volume...
...next five days. Police officials, terrified at the ever present prospect of an S.A.O. attempt to assassinate France's President. blanched at his indifference to security precautions. In Bonn and Cologne, De Gaulle pressed against police lines, shaking hands and murmuring. "Guten Tag, guten Tag." In Hamburg he scorned a limousine that the city fathers had just had bulletproofed for $3,000, insisted on riding in an open car instead. Cops with walkie-talkies endlessly scanned the crowds. Doctors and nurses dogged the President's footsteps with bandages, collapsible stretchers and supplies of his rare blood type...
...political union with France is a vague abstraction to most West Germans, the crowds responded eagerly to De Gaulle's outstretched hands, his praise for the "great German volk." Though he privately feels that the Common Market is already big enough, in the trade-minded port city of Hamburg De Gaulle disclaimed any intent of excluding other nations from the European community...
...sally across the Rhine. "Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid on a man-killing marathon of speeches, parades, banquets and wreath layings to honor the first official visit of a French head of state to modern Germany. Nervous German chefs on his route...
...Hamburg city administration felt small compulsion to go it alone to save Schlieker because his Hamburg workers were certain to land new jobs quickly in labor-short West Germany. So many of them did, in fact, that the neighboring shipyard which undertook to finish three of the big ships now on Schlieker's ways was having difficulty recruiting...