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...important move for Hamburg-based Der Spiegel, since the magazine devotes more space to news of the U.S.-and treats it more intelligently-than any other publication in West Germany. Publisher Augstein believes that West Germany is economically and culturally closer to the U.S. than to any other nation. He says that when Spiegel tells readers about the U.S., it gives them a look into their future. In the past three years Der Spiegel has run 27 cover stories on U.S. subjects, ranging from politics to industry, from the tribulations of Autherine Lucy to the gyrations of Elvis Presley. Last...
...press is not so high. Few dailies or magazines can match the best papers in the rest of Europe; German publishers still take greater pride in long-winded Page One editorials than accurate reporting. The news is stodgily written and frequently outdated, since even such big dailies as Hamburg's Die Welt and Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung pinch pfennigs by making correspondents mail in copy...
Looking like an uneasy fugitive from a Frans Hals painting, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany James B. Conant, 63, dolled himself up in traditional Renaissance plumage, then proudly accepted an honorary Doctor of Natural Science degree from the University of Hamburg. Harvard's former Prexy Conant, whose sheepskins could cover a large flock, now boasts more than 40 honorary diplomas...
...half so effective as Hildegarde, who inspires a certain desire to get on the next boat for Hamburg or Hollywood or wherever she breathes...
...only change in sight under the new regime. The son of Sir Hector Hetherington, principal of Glasgow University, he took honors in English at Oxford, went straight into the tank corps in World War II. His first newspaper job was on the British military staff putting out Hamburg's Die Welt. After the war Hetherington worked on the Glasgow Herald, spent five months at Princeton as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1952. When he switched to the Guardian in 1950, Wadsworth and others quickly tagged him as a comer. Since 1953 he has had a virtually free hand with editorials...