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...tourists left the Polish cruise liner Stefan Batory in Hamburg; many of them immediately began the quest for asylum. Their example was quickly followed. At week's end West German authorities reported that an additional 126 Poles had jumped ship from the ferry Rogalin when it docked in Travemünde, a town near the East German border...
With the schedule Long has planned for Ondine, he had better corner the Dramamine supply. Last week, only days after the Newport-Bermuda contest, Ondine was racing again, on a 3,700-mile course across the Atlantic to Travem¨unde, Germany-a voyage that will take most of a month. After that, it's off to the Pacific for two more long races. What makes Huey sail? Publicly, he talks like John Masefield. Privately he admits: "My only fun is winning...
...Casinos are still illegal in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Bremen, but the 13 licensed casinos in the rest of the country draw 1,600,000 visitors a year for a house profit of $75 million. They flourish mostly in venerable resorts like Bad Neuenahr, Baden-Baden, Travemünde, Bad Kissingen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, even though the crowds are overwhelmingly big-city businessmen, secretaries, clerks and housewives, who go home peaceably after they have lost $10 or $15 in an evening. Protests the Protestant weekly, Christ and World: "The last barrier against the burning German gambling fury...
...appeared, a Munich disk jockey labeled it the "most horrible Schnulze [sentimental trash] of the year" and broke the record over his microphone. But the song caught on quickly, largely because many other German singers working the Wanderlust beat have never been farther from home than the casino at Travemünde. Freddy managed to sing as if he really knew what it meant to be a lonely traveler...
...South of Travemünde, the eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...