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Died. C.W. Ceram, 57, German journalist and author whose 1949 history of archaeology, Gods, Graves and Scholars, became an international bestseller; of heart disease; in Hamburg. A book and drama critic during the early '30s, he switched to the less political field of art history when the Nazis came to power. He joined the Wehrmacht in World War II, was captured by the Americans, and developed his interest in archaeology while a prisoner of war. For Gods' publication, he reversed and Anglicized his real name, Kurt W. Marek. The book sold more than 4,000,000 copies...
...were reduced from an average 30 minutes to only five or ten. No one was required to get out of autos or to submit to a search. As a test of the new East German attitude, one driver openly displayed copies of a West German military magazine and a Hamburg sex tabloid on the front seat of his car. In the past, Western publications were confiscated lest they contaminate East German minds. This time, however, an East German guard simply shrugged...
...fill a shortage of math and science teachers, the German state of Hamburg hit on a novel solution: it advertised in the U.S., where colleges turn out more teachers than the schools can employ (TIME, Aug. 9). Lured by promises that a knowledge of German was "preferred but not necessary" and that the work would involve college-level classes, some 500 Americans applied for jobs paying up to $850 a month. Hamburg officials signed 71 of them to two-year contracts...
...Hamburg education officials refuse to cancel the contracts-or to pay the disgruntled teachers' fare home. Even so, 16 of the Americans have quit, and as many more say they would do so if they could find jobs in the U.S. Says Gulp: "I never thought that an administrative screw-up of such proportions was possible...
...minutes later, Chancellor Willy Brandt was on TV to declare it "a great day for Europe." NATO's Secretary-General Joseph Luns glowed to reporters: "The sun shines all over Europe today." Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, informed of the result at a gala banquet in Hamburg, immediately raised her glass and told the 360 dinner guests, who broke into applause. Jean Monnet, 82, justly known as "the Father of the Common Market," watched the vote from the gallery in the House of Commons. Afterward he beamed: "This is what I have been waiting for during the last...