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...between divided Germany for two decades. In spite of the political détente that is expected to arise from the recent state treaty signed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, East German authorities are reinforcing the deadly barrier. In recent months, for example, workmen have been methodically replacing the barbed wire fences with new gratings; their mesh is too fine to climb...
Fellini's emotional center is in the past, and he feasts on the frivolity of his Romans. He re-creates Jovinelli, a proletarian vaudeville, and here the Romans for the first time take over a film rightfully theirs. The ribald workmen are hungry for sex and sentiment. They drool at drooling dancers, swoon at the strains of middle-aged tarts, and taunt the futility of a fourth-rate comic. Vaudeville was a battle between this brawling crowd and their amateur entertainers, to which Mussolini and his war were secondary attractions...
Martin Bormann alive and rich in Argentina? Not according to the latest word from Berlin. During some excavations, workmen found two skulls, one of which has been tentatively identified as that of Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's surgeon, who was scurrying down the street with Bormann when both men disappeared. As for the other skull, the teeth resemble those of the Nazi leader, and there is a deformation over the right eye, where Bormann had a scar. German officials promised to announce the results of their examinations in mid-January. Paramount Pictures, planning a movie on Bormann...
...York. "This is a disaster," he said, having peered through half-painted cabins with naked light bulbs hanging from their sockets and cables strewn across the floors. "The ship looks as though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen tried desperately to get it shipshape. Cunard was forced to cough up $250,000 in emergency shore accommodations or air fares home for 1,550 stranded passengers. After the liner finally weighed anchor this week, a cleanup party of 40 workmen was still aboard, hammering their way across the Atlantic...
Skating before the new paint under the ice in Watson Rink had dried. Olympic-star Murry scarred the Crimson colors last Thursday night and cost Harvard workmen several hours' time for repairs. "Some of the hockey players told me the ice was ready," she said...