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...extent that is staggering from a U.S. point of view, the idea has caught on in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, England and, as one editor puts it, "even Spain." The "democratization" movement has flourished in the generally socialist climate of postwar Europe. Bitter experiences under the Third Reich or the Occupation prejudiced many journalists-both rank and file and at the top of the masthead -against extreme concentration of editorial control...
...that are booked to capacity for years to come. German exporters are losing their markets in China and the rest of Asia to the Japanese, and are being pushed increasingly hard even in Europe. For example, an official of Zeiss Ikon says that Japanese Pentax cameras sell in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden for 5% to 7% less than the comparable Zeiss Icarex-35. Export prowess has planted a flourishing Japanese business colony in Germany itself. More than 100 Japanese companies have opened European sales headquarters in Düsseldorf. The city now boasts a first-class Japanese restaurant, the Nippon...
...only one in Eastern Europe-in Rumania, which has remained neutral in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. Late last year, presumably in a test of the new Nixon Administration, the Chinese agreed to a single meeting in Warsaw in February, only to cancel it abruptly after a Chinese diplomat in Holland defected...
Died. Ole Singstad, 87, master tunnel builder; in Manhattan. Beginning with New York's Holland Tunnel in 1927, the Norwegian-born Singstad designed and built dozens of underwater highways, including New York's Lincoln and Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and the 1¾-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. What made them all possible was his ingenious ventilation system, which sucks out deadly exhaust fumes with fans so efficiently that it has become standard the world over...
Also, Philip A. Kelsey of Leverett House and San Francisco, Lewis C. Lipson, of Winthrop House and Bronz. N. Y., Albert B. Masters, of Dunster House and Norfolk, Va., Jeffrey S. Padnos, of Dunster House and Holland, Mich., Erie Redman, of Lowell House and Seattle, Wash., and Leslie E. Schwah, of Quincy House and Ann Arhor. Mich...