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...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...
...lucky. They had a county hospital and six rural "ambulatoriums'' (clinics). In the county of Gardelegen, not a single private practitioner was left for 55,000 people, and they had only one county hospital - understaffed because many hospital doctors have joined the exodus to the West. In Rostock, one remaining eye specialist, a 72-year-old man, keeps a ten-hour-a-day schedule. The flow of fleeing physicians has reached a flood stage of 800 or more a year, and shows no signs of subsiding. Remaining doctors, especially the relatively few in private practice, are grossly overworked...
Other farmers were subjected to days of verbal bombardment from loudspeaker trucks parked outside their houses. Gustav Pohl, 60, a farmer near Rostock, had resisted collectivization for five years, but gave in fortnight ago to the agitators. "They told me I could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping...
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...