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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world buys its machinery and its Siemens heavy electrical gear (generators for Mexico, transformers for South America). West German women wear Berlin's smartly tailored fashions. Three fancy new hotels have just opened, including the Berlin Hilton, featuring New York-style high prices and bellhops who hop to orders received by pocket radio. The only reason that West...
What the Communists presumably mean by a confederation is an arrangement under which both East and West Germany would retain their present governments and economic systems, and even commitments, but would establish some kind of "federal" parliament or high commission to regulate any trade and relations between the two Germany's, the one free, the other Communist. Even if a confederation were fairly proportioned between West Germany's 54 million people and East Germany's 17.4 million, it would mean open Western acceptance of the East German Communist government and of the Soviet presence in East Germany...
...Batonga tribe, some 50,000 strong, has survived for more than 500 years on the banks of the Zambesi where it flows through the steaming, fertile Gwembe Valley between Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Nature has guarded them, for their valley lies between the foaming splendor of the 350-ft.-high Victoria Falls, over whose sheer cliff pours 75 million gallons of water per minute, and a narrow, rock-walled gorge called the Kariba by the tribesmen because of its resemblance to the funnel-shaped traps they set for mice, rats and other small animals...
Like many another newborn nation, the Kingdom of Morocco has sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble...
First Comedian: But that's just the trouble. It's thinking about high rent, the rising prices of cheese, meat, butter, raki and cigarettes that makes me want to jump into the Bosporus...