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...GERMANY, in the third big steel merger since 1964, two Dortmund steel firms, Hoesch A.G. and Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion A.G., merged last month, and plan to work closely with The Netherlands' Hoogovens steel firm. The two major Hamburg shipyards, the government-owned Howaldtwerke and the privately owned H. C. Stülcken Sohn, and Siemens, the electrical-equipment makers, have agreed on a merger that may include a fourth firm; the new group would have a shipbuilding capacity of 300,000 tons annually...
...Frankfurt, if you ask for frankfurter Wurst, you will be served a pair of hors d'oeuvre-size smoked sausages with a slice of bread. In Hamburg, if you ask for a hamburger, the man behind the counter will say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger! Everyone who lives here is a Hamburger!" And when you are in a German beer hall, don't bellow out that favorite of American rathskellers-"Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank? Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank"-everyone will think you're crazy, except, of course, the American tourists at the next table, who will...
Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter and His Model, by Marc Chagall, he flatly refused to handle it as a poster for the Chagall exhibition at the Kunsthaus Center. Unless Kunsthaus Director Eylert Spars would let him paste a paper ribbon across the model's breasts. Spars sighed, and instead of posting his 800 posters...
...Conventional." "It's not so much the money that hurts," says Best today. "It's the heartbreak." When he joined the boys in 1960, they were known as the Silver Beatles and off to Hamburg for their first engagement out of Great Britain; their weekly take was an unimpressive $20 each. Best earned his passage with the suggestion that the "Silver" be dropped, because "it sounds a bit corny."*Best also contributed to the essential trip-hammering back-up for the Beatle beat; until his arrival, they were all guitars. A year later, Brian Epstein came aboard...
...subject have been conventional enough. Recently, he expressed the government's view on the church memorandum: "We must not abandon or weaken our position in regard to the German eastern territories," he said, "unless there is a relation to the reunification problem." His colleague in the C.D.U., Hamburg Party Chairman Erik Blumenfeld, went a long step farther. "A solution of the border question," he said, "can only be reached by balancing the interests of the two parties involved. The overwhelming interest of Germany consists of the desire for reunification and the interest of Poland in stable borders...