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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Paris erupted with fireworks, flowers and music on V-E day, West Germany's Bundestag, not surprisingly, voted down any German notation of the anniversary. "We truly have no occasion to celebrate this day," said Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a moving speech. "The guilt and fate of this epoch of our history will not leave us for generations." Moscow, however, was determined to rub it in on the West Germans. Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew to East Berlin to join Puppet Walter Ulbricht and Poland's Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in a parade of thousands of Russian and East...
...Teddy v. Temptation. Under the 24th, and latest, amendment to the U.S. Constitution, poll taxes are prohibited in elections for federal offices. However, poll taxes in state and local elections are still permitted, and four states -Alabama, Texas, Virginia and Mississippi-now have such poll taxes. Mississippi's poll tax is $2 a year, the others levy $1.50. What would prevent a state from rushing through a measure establishing a poll tax of, say, $15? To forestall that temptation, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy tacked onto the voting bill yet another amendment, outlawing poll taxes altogether in elections...
...practice permissible in six states, including California. In decisions dating to 1908, the Supreme Court had refused to bar such comment in state courts (federal courts have barred it since 1893). But last year the court extended the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to all state courts (Malloy v. Hogan), a step inevitably pointing to Griffin's victory. As a result, the U.S. Constitution now guarantees what 44 states have already established on their own. As for Eddie Griffin, he faces retrial in California with no comment on his silence. Whether the new right will help him remains...
Opel has been doing pretty well: it has jumped from 14.3% to 21.1% of the German market since 1952 (v. Volkswagen's 32.5%). It has just discovered, however, that while pursuing Volkswagen it will have to keep a sharp eye on the rearview mirror. Reason: Ford's German subsidiary is coming up fast from the rear. Fortified by new and attractive models, heavy investment and good management, Ford has captured 19.6% of the German market with its Taunus cars, pulling to within honking distance of Opel and bringing the two U.S.-owned companies closer to domination of Germany...
...plowed $40 million into the area, mostly for dams, power projects, roads and other facilities essential to attract industry. The U.S. chipped in $131 million in development loans and grants, while private investors committed $300 million. Despite ever-increasing bureaucratization, overall production in the Northeast climbed 6% in 1964 (v. a 3% decline for Brazil as a whole). Then, in the wake of the March 1964 revolution, the military decided that Leftist Furtado should be purged; he was replaced by Sociologist João Gonçalves de Souza...