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...premium is on skill and imagination. Not only do they pay high taxes, but they also do well in the export trade and earn generous amounts of Western currency. They tend to react more flexibly than the wholly nationalized companies to changing markets. Recently TIME Bonn Correspondent George Taber visited two East German businessmen who described their relations with their "silent partner," the government. His report...
After revisiting Dresden, TIME Correspondent George Taber reported: "Standing in the Theaterplatz, you see the rebuilt Hofkirche and the art gallery with the Zwinger Museum in the back. But you also see the bombed-out skeletons of the opera and the royal palace. It is not a morose but an ambivalent feeling one has in Dresden. The restoration of the old masterpieces is encouraging and uplifting, but the sight of the unreconstructed ones reminds one of the senselessness of the attack...
While working on this week's Essay, That New Black Magic, a study of changing styles in superstition, Reporter George Taber canvassed his colleagues on TIME's editorial staff. By and large, he discovered, they were remarkably hesitant about admitting any belief in the occult. Not so the people who were involved with the Essay itself...
...Taber decided that even to work on such an Essay was begging for trouble. Sure enough, while he was reporting, he tried to interview a fortuneteller and she stood him up. When he invested a penny in a drugstore scale, he got back a card on which was printed his weight and the warning: "Watch your step...
After citing these energetic in-the-family examples of the exercise era, we hasten to add that some-well, many-of our staff are quite remote from this enthusiastic level. A number are in a category with Essay Reporter George Taber, a sometime exerciser whose weekend effort now consists of lifting the Sunday New York Times. Others are on a par with (but few as lucky as) the Bonn bureau's lean Burton Pines, who says, "Eating hard-frozen chocolate ice cream is all the exercise I get-and that's all I need." At any rate...