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...Munich American Elementary School...
...onetime Congressman himself (1919-21) and New York State Democratic Committee chairman (1921-26), who was tapped by his Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more vengeance-driven than the nation, lost the U.N. commission post when Congress neglected to appropriate his salary...
...past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
...Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire. In 1951, he went off to the musty House of Lords after acceding to his father's title and his share of the family's 100,000 acres...
...rates: .6% of a labor force of 21 million. To keep their economy expanding, the West Germans last year imported more than 400,000 non-German workers, and this year the figure is expected to be much bigger. Nearly 5,000 Italian and Greek workers arrive each week through Munich alone. Others pour in from Spain, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Yugoslavia-even Turkey...