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...first confrontation of the Big Four foreign ministers since the Geneva summit of 1955, a total of 1,174 journalists cabled stories about the big fuss over the furniture. But the week's historic news turned out to be the new Western plan for Germany, first outlined fortnight ago in TIME'S May 11 issue. To bring the basic discussion of the issues up to date, see FOREIGN NEWS, Around the Doughnut Table...
Facts with Wax. As if this were not enough, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas kept carping about a couple of additional problems. For one thing, the nine-man Senate Office Building Commission had ordered two bronze plaques (total cost: $5,000), emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers...
...East Germans, who now have what is probably the best standard of living in the Communist world. Many of East Germany's vaunted economic gains are all show: the bulk of the new housing in East Berlin is on the spectacular but dead Stalinallee. And with a total automobile production last year of 36,000, East Germany still has a long way to go to catch up economically with West Germany, which produced more than 1,000,000. But it has been a year since East Germans needed ration cards to buy food...
...assets total some $2 billion, and receipts run to $500 million annually, but exactly what it spends and earns is a mystery even to the government owners; its balance sheet is, by Mattei custom, uninformative. With it he can buy political influence-he is a lavish contributor to the Christian Democratic Party-but Mattei, independently wealthy, lives almost austerely in a Rome hotel, turns over his salary to charity. At 53, his main interest outside of ENI is trout fishing. "I am going to retire at 60," he says, and critics ruefully acknowledge he is so well entrenched that there...
...quite so funny and more objectionable in the poll was the tone of bargaining it conveyed: if you will sacrifice one afternoon a week will you sacrifice two? three? The premise of such an argument seems based on the sacred nature of the present total of 35 hours a week when "members of the House may entertain lady guests in their rooms," which evidently, is inviolate...