Word: autobahns
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Antwerp has been blessed by history, geography and its neighbor's good roads. The single superhighway leading from the city fortunately connects with the German autobahn, and excellent canal and rail links tie Antwerp to the rest of Europe. Compared with its bigger competitors for investment, Belgium is more centrally located than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready...
...Feet at Top Speed. This novel means of protection was discovered almost accidentally by German Entomologists Karl Linsenmair and Dr. Rudolf lander of Freiburg Zoological Institute. In flooded gravel pits alongside the Karlsruhe-Basle autobahn, the two men were studying the orientation mechanism by which the Stenodus does its navigation...
...Mercedes has long ruled the autobahn as a symbol of affluence for West Germany's economic Wunderkinder. Though still the most elegant German car on the road, Mercedes is now being challenged by a brash newcomer. Last week German auto buyers began to place orders for a set of autos created specifically to overtake Mercedes. The challenger is Opel, General Motors' West German subsidiary and Europe's most exciting automaker...
...Khrushchev. In 1961, when the Communists sealed off the Eastern zone with the evil Wall in Berlin and seemed ready to block the Western allies from their access routes to West Berlin, Kennedy dispatched then-Vice President Johnson to the scene, sent 1,500 armored troops rolling down the autobahn and beefed up U.S. forces in Germany. Again Khrushchev backed down-and not for the last time...
Tail Gates Up. Charles de Gaulle's icy attitude toward the Anglo-Saxons, his insistence on creating a nuclear force de dissuasion and his all-round obstructionism have made the Alphands' job more difficult. But during the autobahn crisis in Germany earlier this month, le grand Charles was momentarily forgotten as Hervé conferred with Ormsby Gore and U.S. officials to hammer out a joint response to the Soviet blockade. "There we are together again," enthused Nicole while discussing the situation with a State Department man. "And we French, we nevair lower our tail gates...