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...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
...LEICA, which has been making the same basic 35-mm. camera since 1924, has just brought out a radical new model to meet increasing competition. Called the "M," the new camera has interchangeable bayonet lenses (instead of the usual screw-mounted type), a detachable automatic light meter, and a combination viewer and range finder that adjusts automatically for all lenses. Retail price...
...knew him as "Bob," thus: "I did not particularly like Felix. He looked like an average young fellow, seemingly simple, not overbright." Many times, in the late '305, Chambers met Felix on a Washington or Baltimore street corner, gave him documents to be photographed with a Leica purchased by the Communist underground. For such work, Felix had been trained in Moscow, where he traveled on a forged U.S. passport. Once Chambers went to Felix's Baltimore home, but he had only a vague impression of its whereabouts...
...publicly explained, became one of the few civilians who attended the atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment's protection. But in Inslerman's Schenectady home, the FBI found a Leica whose imperfections matched the scratch marks on Chambers' famed pumpkin film...
Many of the oldtimers, e.g., Krupp and Ernst Leitz (Leica cameras), are also back in business. Some units of the old I.G. Farben chemical combine, broken up after the war, are bigger than ever. And while the old cartels have been officially banned, price-fixing and trade agreements still play an important part in the German economy. A strong movement is afoot to legalize cartels again, despite the opposition of Economics Minister Erhard and the evidence of how free competition rebuilt the country...