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...Brooklyn, Rudolf Wiesen, a store designer, caught the city of New York trying to reduce the time limit on the 10¢ parking meter in front of his office from two hours to one hour. After Wiesen reminded the city's traffic department about the freeze, the department agreed to reconvert other parking meters around the city to pre-Aug. 15 prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare...
...most notable successes was the Burgess-MacLean-Philby case, a classic example of successful infiltration aided by the refusal of the British Foreign Office's "old boys" to admit that one of their class could betray the country. Colonel Rudolf Abel spent nine years in the U.S. running a spy network that may have covered...
...years Sir Rudolf Bing has ruled New York's Metropolitan Opera with an iron fist, influencing people but making few friends by imposing rigid discipline on his staff and summarily firing such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked...
After he replaced Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess in 1941, he exercised virtual control over everyone Hitler saw and everything Hitler read. As executor of Hitler's estate, he was the first to enter the room in the Führerbunker after Hitler's suicide. Turning the government over to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Bormann fled the bunker on the night of May 1, 1945, in an attempt to slip through the tightening Soviet ring of tanks and troops only 300 yards away. Somewhere between the bunker and Friedrichstrasse Station, Martin Bormann vanished...
...Kennedy joined TIME's Chicago bureau, later came to New York to become one of our most prolific "entertainment specialists," writing a dozen covers including those on rock 'n' roll, Rowan and Martin, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Frazier-Ali championship bout. Not long after he wrote our cover on television commercials, Kennedy, his wife Patsy and their eight children made a few commercials themselves...