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Declining Fringes. In the first postwar German elections of 1949, a total of 58 parties competed, ranging in political complexion from Communist to extreme neo-Nazi nationalists. The Communists got only 5.7% of the vote. And though sensational journalists have tried to inflate every two-pfennig crackpot into a new Hitler. German voters have steadfastly rejected neo-Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei...
Aside from sports cars (he has two) and photography, Krupp's chief recreation is his 66-ft. schooner Germania V, on which he cruises for one or two months a year. Krupp also likes to play skat-at one-tenth of a pfennig a point...
...Grundig started to move his middle-cost and high-quality production talents beyond the electronics field. He took over more than 50% interest in Germany's famed Triumph-Werke, which does a $17 million yearly business manufacturing typewriters, office equipment, bicycles. As with all his other investments, every pfennig he paid was Grundig...
Instead, West Germany's pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer came up last week with an audacious proposal: Germany would let the rest of the world make heavy arms; Germany would merely buy them, using its accumulated trade surpluses. With a glance at the Iron Curtain, Schaffer added piously: "We must never forget that we are a border country, and that it would be politically extremely imprudent to build up a war industry a few kilometers away from the frontier ... A wrong picture could be created beyond this frontier...
...arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped for a hunk of Hitler's great fortune, but her prospects of getting even a pfennig of it have dimmed to the vanishing point. Facing her eviction stoically, Paula indulged in some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind to me when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were...