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Then Silence. The ringleader was Wismar Medina Rojas. 28, second mate aboard the Anzoátegui. Smuggling eight FALN gunmen aboard the freighter, he surprised the rest of the 36-man crew. In a series of gloating radio messages, he identified himself and his henchmen, said that captain and crew were unharmed. Then silence from the Anzoátegui presumably on its way to Cuba and a propaganda triumph for Fidel Castro...
...which operated in the red until 1955 because parts often were promised for delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports. East Germany has launched one 10,000-ton freighter at Warnemünde, now is producing other freighters at Wismar and Rostock, plus 500-ton fishing luggers and luxury yachts (for Communist brass and export) in shipyards at Stralsund and Wolgast on the blue Baltic. But East Germany's marine diesel engines are of prewar design, far too heavy and bulky to compete with the West's. Radio...
Coal is the biggest but not the first victory for the capitalists in Nazi Germany. For years broad-faced, quiet Herr Wohlthat has doggedly fought a rearguard action against the Party radicals. Born in Wismar (where his father ran a hat shop), Wohlthat got some of his education in the U. S. (New York University and Columbia) and his first real business experience in the Pennsylvania oil fields. In 1930 he married a Philadelphia schoolteacher who happened to be a poor relation of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (membership about 800,000) -the magazine is sympathetic with a liturgical movement which currently is exciting Lutherans almost as much as the Oxford Movement excited Anglicans a century ago. Leaders in the liturgical crusade are Pastors Frederick R. Webber of Cleveland, Adolph Wismar of Manhattan, Berthold von Schenk of Hoboken, N. J. and Carl Bergen of Leonia, N. J. They work through the Liturgical Society of St. James which they founded eight years ago. They advocate a change not in theological doctrine but in church services, with pastors wearing proper vestments, decking their...
...Last week the Dornier company announced it will move its plant from Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance in the Alps, to Wismar Bay on the Baltic. The Lake Constance site, where the Zeppelin works also is situated, is too far from the sea for efficient testing and servicing of seaplanes. At Wismar Bay the new Dornier plant will be handily near an important base of Luft Hansa...