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...condition, live as much as possible under actual field conditions, and are rigidly disciplined. They are organized into at least 20 divisions; about half of them are infantry and supporting artillery, the other half armor. The divisions are assigned to five armies, each covering, roughly, one of the five Lander (states) in the Soviet zone. Most of the armies are composed of two corps; each corps is made up of one armored and one infantry division...
Help from the Men. Since beautiful Prima Ballerina Margot Lander retired in February, the Royal Ballet has sorely missed a female dancer who could rival England's Margot Fonteyn (TIME, Nov. 14). And the company as a whole could not quite match the glittering polish and clockwork precision drilled into the Sadler's Wells troupe. But the Danes proved to be second to none in their male stars...
...Wells has no one to touch handsome, Danish-born First Solo Dancer Borge Ralov, 42 (who changed his name from Petersen to avoid confusion with another dancer). In an art in which the reverse is usually true, the Danish male dancers are thoroughly masculine. Says Ballet Master-Choreographer Harold Lander: "When I see a boy going that way, I tell him to give it up or give up dancing. Ballet needs feminine women and masculine...
From the Petersberg, the mountain-top headquarters on the Rhine of the Allied High Commission for Germany, Konrad Adenauer and his ministers descended to their capital at Bonn. At the federal chancellery they met with the directors of the Bank Deutscher Lander, West Germany's central bank. There they agreed to cut the mark from 30? to 22 ½? to bring it into line with sterling and other devalued currencies...
...last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...