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...years since World War II, no one has tried to reserve specific air space by "block booking." So the Western allies promptly replied to the Russians with a unanimous no. Next day, the Soviet officer made his request again, this time requesting chunks of the Berlin-Hamburg and Berlin-Hanover air corridors; again the answer was no, and the West sent military patrol planes up and down the routes, and passed on to Soviet headquarters the warning that the Russians would be held responsible for their safety...
Joan put a sweater and skirt over her dress, a fur stole across her shoulders and crossed the border in a friend's car. Her husband had been given permission to make a brief visit to the Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...
...Darkness. Coloratura Carroll had just started to build a reputation at the Hamburg Opera when she met Heinrich, married him and moved to East Berlin. Born Joan Crugman, the daughter of a Philadelphia portrait photographer, she had studied at Curtis Institute, later sang in New York nightclubs ("It's not easy to stand up before a lot of drunks and sing the 'Bell Song' from Lakme"). In 1959 she headed for Germany...
...rubble of World War II a spanking new industrial base that rivals the U.S.'s in some respects, excels it in others. At Italy's forward-driving Fiat, computers design engine parts and direct machine tools; Fiat intends to double daily auto production within three years. At Hamburg's Willy Schlieker shipyards, a slender beam of light moves along the lines of a blueprint and automatically directs acetylene torches that slice through thick slabs of steel like butter. And the Europeans are spending freely for more automation. The Common Market Six are plowing back an average...
...Kill. In Los Angeles, and many other cities, "survival stores" have been doing a boom business selling shelter supplies. Shelter Equipment Corp., a Denver enterprise, is operated by Rolf M. Weber and John Scott, both German immigrants and veterans of the World War II air raids over Berlin and Hamburg. When their store opened officially last week, its shelves had already been swept clean by customers who had attended a two-hour preview the previous weekend. "The sandbags are a must," says Weber. "We are also recommending periscopes. Lots of Germans were killed when their curiosity got the better...