Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's July 1 deadline for France's NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany for the time being. Last week, as De Gaulle called in Bonn for a ten-hour visit under the terms of the 1963 Franco-German agreement (which requires biannual meetings of the two heads of government), it became clear that the temporary arrangement would probably become a permanent...
...obligations to balance their budgets; instead, they will be able to run surpluses or deficits, depending on whether the economy needs to be speeded up or slowed down. Both federal and state governments will be required to present long-term (probably five years), coordinated investment plans; at present, the Bonn government is not able to even get information from the states about their spending prospects, much less influence them. Also under the new legislation, the government will be able to vary tax-depreciation allowances in order to stimulate or soothe the economy...
Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking is among the top ten on record charts in Mexico City, Rome, Bonn and Geneva. Batoman is wowing them on TV in Tokyo and playing in Buenos Aires and London as well. Bonanza is big not only in Africa but in the Middle East and Europe; it is one of South Vietnamese Premier Ky's favorite programs. Pictures of Rock Hudson and Doris Day are pinned on the walls of Philippine homes right beside the family crucifix, and a Budapest newspaper recently exhorted its readers to imitate the manners...
...least one "name" store, as well as a handful of less famous but no less ambitious ones. And though they boast of the barons and movie stars who patronize them, in fact the ordinary working-class German accounts for an increasingly large slice of the business. As one Bonn sociologist points out, the workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing...
Poisoned Atmosphere. Germans were furious. Calling the photos a "gross forgery," Bonn Press Chief Karl-Günther von Hase demanded that the French government take action against Paris Match. Prince Konstantin of Bavaria promised to bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken...