Word: autobahnen
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...Stalin's tomb, in the pensive glances of Belgium's Prince Albert and Italy's Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria before their marriage this week. The prosperity of Western Europe could be seen at the crowded beaches, in the tumult of new cars crowding the Autobahnen. Those insecure lands of the Middle East, of Africa, of Asia were taking turns that caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when a basic worldwide test was how firmly nations stood on their own, how able and anxious they...
...Hitler revived Germany. He provided bread and work for 7,000,000 unemployed, and built the Autobahnen...
...warmth of spring, the Mercedes, BMWs and Opels streaming along the Autobahnen have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...
...buildings of its new garment center, will open later this summer its fabulous Building Exhibition, to which the world's greatest architects, from France's Le Corbusier to Brazil's Niemeyer and America's Gropius have each contributed a structure. Mercedes-Benz cars crowd the Autobahnen, and so many workers are buying Kleinstwagen (small one-or two-cylinder cars seating four) that the motorcycle industry is suffering from the competition. Unemployment in West Germany is so small that even a high official in the Labor Ministry in three months of searching could not find a domestic...
...five-week trip the four-man mission was busy in conference or consultation from early until late, but Honneus still found time to take pictures. Before breakfast he was out shooting street scenes, and late at night he took pictures of window displays in fashionable shopping districts. On the Autobahnen between cities, he sat in the front seat of the mission's Ford station wagon to photograph scenery through the windshield...