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...British have not been happy to see Germany replace them recently as Europe's No. 1 trading power. A spate of war movies, a new rash of generals' memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there...
Knock First, Sour Kraut, etc. In Hamburg, West Germany, after a rash of mysterious signs (small crosses, arrows) appeared on houses all over the city, police learned that they represented a secret code among door-to-door salesmen...
...security. It also expressed the hope that once free, the Congo would keep ties with Belgium, like those that President de Gaulle has asked for from France's former colonies. "Our firm resolution now," said the King, "is to lead the Congolese people, without fatal delays and without rash haste, onward to independence...
...Music Hall, banners and paper hatbands urged the selection of the evening's speaker as President of the U.S., and cops sprouted like potted palms. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had come to town, infecting Houston (pop. 897,600) with a slight case of the disease, symptomized by a rash of extremism, known as Little Rock fever...
...merriest Christmas in history-a 60% increase in minimum wages, and a 30% pay boost for the army and government employees, effective immediately. Playing Santa Claus would raise Brazil's record budget deficit of $285 million, but the news of the proposed wage hike ended the recent rash of cost-of-living riots (TIME...