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They are seen everywhere in West Germany these days: plump, well-barbered, aggressive men, their eyes alert for opportunity or slightly lidded after a heavy meal. They travel from factory to bank to hotel in chauffeur-driven Mercedes 3005's; their women are gowned by Dior, Heim, Balenciaga. Liveried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rosie & the New Rich | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Rosie's amorous career began at 14 in tiny Niedermending, where she instantly became a military objective of the French troops who then occupied the airport. A few years later, Rosie moved on to Frankfurt and became a bar girl. Soon she had enough money to buy a modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rosie & the New Rich | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

They are a sight to see. A sort of minute-made elite ("Nescafé Society," one French journalist calls it), the summer crowd at St. Trop, though liberally sprinkled with titles, seems to have invented itself. The visitors are almost always young, and though they may change companions from year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Happy Few | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Fast-Money Fans. Day and night fans churned through Stockholm's streets and stirred up their share of excitement. Arrogant West Germans flashed their money in local bistros, drank too much, drove their sleek Mercedes cars too fast, even earned a rebuke from one of their own papers, Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Light-Foot Latins | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

A consistent winner on the playing fields of Hollywood, where he dazzled Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kim Novak and Joan Collins with chinchilla, Mercedes-Benz convertibles and diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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