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Such men are the stuff of legends, and since his death in 1935 the legend of Lawrence has inspired scores of books. Now for the first time it has inspired a film, and quite a film it is. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the men who made The Bridge on the River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras...
...Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel at the sight of their new guardians sneaking a morning drink. In political terms, the resulting uproar often has an hysterical ring. Recently, during the scandal over Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9), Group 47 issued a statement declaring that "the stealing of military secrets is a patriotic duty...
...German politicians were confident of three things: 1) that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would resign next fall, 2) that he would be replaced by popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. and 3) that ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss was finished as a national figure because of his involvement in the Spiegel crisis...
...challenge the government's right to imprison him. After all, Augstein's arrest has already resulted in 1) a Cabinet crisis in Konrad Adenauer's government, 2) the resignation of Augstein's hated enemy. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, and 3) a surge in Der Spiegel's circulation from 525,000 to more than...
When first jailed in Hamburg, Augstein was allowed to make daily visits to Der Spiegel's office, but, to make sure that he did not try to escape or to destroy evidence, police escorted him everywhere, even to the men's room. Even so, he was free to write flaming anti-Adenauer editorials for Der Spiegel, the brisk, irreverent, and often sensational newsmagazine he founded in 1947. Moved last month to a more confining prison at Coblenz, Augstein is now undergoing daylong interrogations. But he still wears his own expensive suits instead of the usual prison uniform, orders...