Word: rostock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...150th of a series of 10,000-ton freighters to East Germany's own state-controlled shipping company, VEB (for Volkseigener Betrieb) Deutsche Seereederei (The People's Own German Shipping Enterprise). The Wismar yards launched a 20,000-ton Russian passenger ship, the Shota Rustaveli, and Rostock's Neptune yards sent another 4,000-ton freighter, the 112th during the past eleven years, down the ways. And 1967 looks to be another banner year...
...disease first showed up in the port city of Rostock fortnight ago, was traced to a shipment of butter imported from Red China. Muttered one stricken East Berliner: "It's a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically no vegetables, and when this dysentery bug appeared, we had no resistance...
...these well-treated East Germans arrived in Casablanca on the East German cruise ship Fritz Heckert, 23 of the honored passengers and a ship's officer defected by wandering off into the city's winding alleyways. The captain flashed word of the escapes to his headquarters in Rostock, got back cabled orders: INTENSIFY IDEOLOGICAL WORK ON BOARD. But stepped-up propaganda lectures were no solution; when the Fritz Heckert anchored in Tunis a few days later, two more passengers and the ship's doctor jumped ship...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A detailed look at East Germany's showcase city, Rostock, filmed in homes, factories, schools and churches during November and December, including an interview with Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...leader in the movement for European unity, he headed the German delegation to the Schuman Plan Conference in 1950. From 1951 to 1958 he was West Germany's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Hallstein has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Munich, Rostock, and Frankfort, where he was Rector during 1946-48. He has written widely on economics and politics...