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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Wall Street: Instant Money," a report on stock-exchange specialists...
...West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt in Manhattan last week. His words were aptly illustrated in his home town, where some 400,000 West Berliners visited relatives in East Berlin on special Easter passes. Even more restless was an East German family of five who stole across the Wall, a 17-year-old girl who swam across a boundary canal, and an East German engineer who bilked a West German visiting East Berlin over Easter out of his identity papers by posing as a member of the secret police, then used the papers to flee into West Berlin...
Focusing new attention on Berlin and the ugly Wall that divides it and Germany will be next month's visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Germans are doing everything to ensure an impeccable reception. Last week the German Dancing Teachers Association offered its suggestions on proper conduct. The teachers recommended clapping and cries of "Königin Elizabeth," with curtsying as "optional." Just in case a relative of the Kaisers might induce any other anachronisms, the association nervously suggested that "the word 'Heil' as an expression of joy should be avoided for reasons of tact...
Vermont Connecticut Royster joined the Wall Street Journal rather casually. Fresh from college in 1936, he had been fired from a New York City news service and turned down by almost every paper in town. About to call it quits, he noticed the Journal on a newsstand. "Well, that's one I haven't tried," he thought. He was hired on a temporary basis, and claims that he still is a temporary fillin, though now he happens to be editor. Occasionally he asks Publisher Barney Kilgore: "When am I going to be permanent?" Kilgore puts...
...Henry Hamill Fowler, 56, the Treasury Secretary, is the financial man who carries the greatest weight at the White House right now. A favorite of Lyndon Johnson's, he almost daily uses his close contacts with Wall Street's bankers and Capitol Hill, cultivated during three years as Under Secretary. "Joe" Fowler's aides moan about his hard pace (usually 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.), which has them working on a dozen different projects, including planning this year's excise-tax reductions and cracking down on abuses of tax-exempt foundations. The first man Wilson sought...