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...Adenauer, 87, journeyed to Rome in a nostalgic mood to say his goodbyes to President Segni and Pope Paul VI, who presented him with the Vatican's highest decoration, the jeweled chain of the Supreme Order of Christ, which had not been given to a German statesman since Bismarck. Then der Alte headed for Paris and an emotion-fraught farewell visit with Charles de Gaulle, his enthusiastic collaborator in this year's Franco-German treaty of friendship...
Romper Room is something unique in television among shows of any kind. It is seen in Anchorage, Bismarck, Green Bay, Montreal, New York, Dallas, Albany, Peoria, Boston, Phoenix-in 94 cities at present with 25 more to be added this fall in Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Scotland; yet there is a different teacher with differ ent children on the air each day in every city where the show is seen. It is the only TV program that is, in TV parlance, syndicated live...
PETER B. SCULLY Queen's University Kingston, Ont. » It is generally attributed to Bismarck...
Germany's nobility was largely to blame for its own decline. Holding themselves aloof from politics, business and the intellectual world, Dieoberen Zehntausend (the Top Ten Thousand), as Bismarck called the elite, devoted their lives either to hunting or to the army; when Hindenburg joined the cadet corps in 1859, 2,000 of 2,900 Prussian officers were of noble birth. However, in its emphasis on a "citizens' army," West Germany's government has even closed off this time-honored avenue for "aristocratic service...
...ttingen bounced Poet Heinrich Heine, who thought more of the town's sausages than of the university's scholars, but welcomed Prince Otto von Bismarck, until debts drove him away. In 1787 it turned out Germany's first female Ph.D. -sloe-eyed Dorothea Schlozer, who at 17 overpowered her examiners while decked out in roses and white muslin. By drawing a variety of young Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Göttingen put a German academic stamp on many U.S. universities...