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...them involving accidents with hypodermic needles that contained contaminated blood. "Because there is mass hysteria, and because this is a fatal disease, and because people don't know very much about this, people's common-sense reaction, including Senators', is to act first and think later," says Geri Palast, a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union, which represents 350,000 health-care workers...
Outside West Berlin's Zoo-Palast Cinema, near the bombed-out shell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, as well as at scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring...
...first-night hoopla at Munich's Gloria Palast was pure Hollywood-grunting cops wrestling with crowds, limousines bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...
...popped up in England, France, Finland, Austria and Switzerland, collecting plenty of excited notices. This time he dashed through ten performances in West Germany (plus recording sessions) in 15 days, wound up last week with a grand finale in West Berlin's cold and functional Titania-Palast theater...
Burnooses & Spies. When East Berlin turned out to welcome the Soviet troupe after its scheduled Paris appearance had been canceled (TIME, May 24), there was at least as much oratory and red-flagwaving as on that day in St. Petersburg. East Berlin's Friedrichstadt Palast theater was jammed to capacity (3,000) with German Communist dignitaries, workers' delegations, burnoosed and turbaned diplomats from a Red peace conference. Also present in the audience: quite a few esthetic spies from the West zone, eager for their first look at a full Soviet troupe...