Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years No. 8 Schleichstrasse was like any other house on the suburban Bonn hillside called Venusberg. Everything was always spick-and-span, and from the kitchen came the odor of Bavarian stew. No. 8's occupant, a chubby, rumpled man with pink bulging face and bulging briefcase, went to the office each morning, returned each evening, like so many hard-working businessmen of the district...
...cannon goes off at your elbow." Amid thunderous salutes on the eve of his retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
Personal Continuity. "My God," Adenauer once said, "I don't know what my successors will do if they are left to do as they please." Adenauer knows well that neither Erhard nor Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder shares his ideas about foreign policy. In "the Erhard era," Bonn will presumably use its influence to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance and bring Britain into the Common Market. The new Chancellor seems determined to resist Charles de Gaulle's vision of an exclusive, inward-looking Europe dominated by France, and to reject France's proffered membership in an independent European deterrent...
...ramrod back and unflagging vitality became legendary. He often attributed his staying power to the energies he stored up "during my strongest years," when the Nazis sacked him as mayor of Cologne and he did little but tend the roses beside his white hillside house across the Rhine from Bonn...
...Thaw? Diplomats ride roughshod over Bonn's traffic laws. The city's narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport...