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...different standards, and both of them differ from the European norm of a 625-line image. Four "converter" stations have been set up: at Dover, to deal with programs coming into Britain; in Paris, where pictures are converted to the French system; and at Lopik, The Netherlands, and Baden, Germany, where the picture goes to 625 lines. An even tougher problem has been mastering the variety of electrical voltages used by the various nations. Altogether, the system links Europe with 44 transmitters and 4,000 miles of cables and relay stations-some perched on such inaccessible peaks as the nearly...
...grand tour has been fashionable for more than two centuries, but the trails have changed with the years. The gourmet trail has been blazed from snails (Paris) to schnitzel (Vienna) to cheese (Gruyére). Health was pursued at the healing waters of Spa, Belgium, and Baden-Baden, Germany. Art was tracked from Amsterdam to Florence to Athens. A temperance tour arranged by young Thomas Cook (from Leicester to Loughborough) in 1841 was followed by many a wine-tasting round (the Loire and the Palatinate). But until recently, music was the main attraction only at such famed centers as Bayreuth...
...happy that in his new West German home in Oberhausen, Baden, Subscriber Maeder will now be able to enjoy reading the world's news each week...
...Lord Baden-Powell, 39, whose father founded the Boy Scout movement, was promoted to the rank of police sergeant in the London special constabulary...
...days later, a postcard came from Zurich. A short time later, another card came from Munich, which read: "I feel like a man on parole reporting to my sponsor, Mr. Klein . . . Punctually yours, Thornton Wilder." Wilder moved on to Baden-Baden, then back to Munich, then to Innsbruck. London Correspondent A. T. Baker caught up with him there and spent four days with...