Word: hesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything on Wheels. In Allentown, Pa., where Hess's department store has its Christmas decorations up, Santa is already lifting the small fry on his knee. Apparently, the earlier the better. Sales Promotion Manager Wayne Holben says that November sales now account for 46% of the Christmas business...
Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
Thinking is about all that Hess does these days. Unlike Speer and Von Schirach, who busied themselves in the Spandau garden and read voluminously (Speer raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
Though allowed to see his family, Hess adamantly refuses to do so. He does, however, write a permitted 1,300 words a month to his family. "It is beneath our dignity to meet," he explained by letter to Wife Ilse, 66, who runs a small Gasthaus in Bavaria's Allgäu Alps. Belatedly, Hess has become a freedom lover. "I would never again put a bird in a cage," he wrote to Ilse. "Only now do I fully understand why the Chinese and Japanese, when fate is especially kind to them, go to the market, buy a bird...
...very likely. The Western Allies have proposed that Spandau be closed and Hess transferred to a less costly jail. But the Russians have a veto, and in their wariness toward the West are not likely to sympathize with moves to reduce the costs of incarceration...