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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bogue or ticky, or just plain goofy, the Lipsi (a contraction of Lipsia, Latin for Leipzig) is what East Germany is dancing this week. Its nervous rhythms have been shuffling across the country from Rostock to Dresden ever since last summer when the Ministry of Culture sighted in on rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUKEBOX: Ticky, Real Ticky | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Soviet-bloc plans have driven East Germany ahead of Red China and Czechoslovakia as Russia's No. 1 trading partner, turning Soviet raw materials into every kind of machine from dynamos for Soviet dams to electronic components for Sputniks. The Russians are pouring millions of marks into making Rostock a major seaport, a substitute for East Germany's natural outlet of Hamburg. Under the grandiose new Khrushchev expansion plans, the Russians have agreed to give East Germany the equivalent of nearly $200 million in economic aid next year, and have assigned the East Germans an industrial specialty: chemicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Most Useful Satellite | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...until 1955 because parts often were promised for delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports. East Germany has launched one 10,000-ton freighter at Warnemünde, now is producing other freighters at Wismar and Rostock, plus 500-ton fishing luggers and luxury yachts (for Communist brass and export) in shipyards at Stralsund and Wolgast on the blue Baltic. But East Germany's marine diesel engines are of prewar design, far too heavy and bulky to compete with the West's. Radio equipment is antiquated, automatic welding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: East German Recovery | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin, all across the country, the hatred and yearning exploded into the bloody rebellion of June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Coffinmaker | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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