Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin; he reported the visit that drew world attention to Mr. K., vodka for vodka. Later, when Khrushchev made the sensational but top-secret Kremlin speech that demolished Stalin, Bell was in Moscow and got wind of it. During two tours of duty in Bonn, he covered the Berlin Wall, the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and matters as disparate as what Chancellor Adenauer was thinking and what the German burgher was eating...
Today, despite fears of encroachments by the automobile and TV on a great national institution, a recent survey shows that walking is still West Germany's No. 1 Sunday recreation. Both the cities of Essen and Bonn last year staged highly successful community "walking days." A two-year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation...
Pity the diplomat from a small Latin American nation in London, Paris, Bonn or Cairo. He has no real need to arrange treaties, snoop for political intelligence, or seek out the details of clandestine missile sites. There is really only the social life and perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign...
...help balance its budget, the inflation-plagued Bonn government will boost liquor taxes from $1.44 to $1.80 a fifth throughout West Germany starting Jan. 1. West Berliners, however, have been paying a special tax of only 470 a fifth. Bonn is abolishing that preferential rate because it figures that the city's economy is now strong enough to do without such a subsidy. As a result, West Berlin liquor prices are expected to climb from...
Money & Results. The question of nuclear sharing is also uppermost in Erhard's mind. As the second biggest contributor to NATO, Bonn believes it is entitled to play a greater role in atomic strategy and weaponry. The NATO Polaris force would be one answer...