Word: alsatians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cozy Elizabethan mansion called Sutton Place, in Surrey outside London, offered 72 rooms, eight manhunting Alsatian watchdogs, four judo experts and two poltergeists dating back to 1777. So on the whole, it should have been ideal for Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Except for that beastly English winter climate. Even installing central heating and a warm-water swimming pool didn't take the chill off. At last Getty has left Sutton Place and moved into a furnished 14th century castle on the seacoast near Rome...
...smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries to $1.6 billion in ten years. Last week the Alsatian Regional Development Organization announced that industrial production has reached an alltime high, fully 45% above the base year...
Center Point for 170 Million. The key to Alsatian prosperity is, of course, the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which set up the Common Market and removed a Maginot Line of trade barriers that sat between France and its neighbors. French firms, actually encouraged by the government to stay away from the danger zone between the wars, began to discover the province and its opportunities: ample land and labor force, the broad highway of the Rhine, convenient location...
More than any other businessmen in Europe, Alsatian businessmen know that their prosperity is hinged to European unity, give Charles de Gaulle's attempt to disrupt the Common Market no support. Says Jean Wenger-Valentin, president of the Industrial Credit Bank of Alsace and Lorraine: "We are all true Europeans here." Amid all the bustle and renewal, one ancient Alsatian industry has survived almost unchanged: sturdy farm hands still hand stuff the gullets of Strasbourg's shiny geese, which produce Europe's best pate de foie gras...
...Harry Oppenheimer, herself a devoted social worker among Africans; and Gordon Waddell, 28, Scots stockbroker; in a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg's St. Mary's Cathedral, outside of which jostling crowds of wildly cheering blacks and whites were kept at bay by police using walkie-talkies and Alsatian dogs, followed by a lavish reception attended by 1,000 members of the white elite...