Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wild Men." West Germany was delighted with De Gaulle's performance. Bonn is equally upset over the Moscow negotiations, fears that a combination of the test ban treaty and a nonaggression formula would raise the diplomatic status of East Germany, thus eroding the stubborn hope of eventual German reunification. Kennedy sought to soothe this worry by restating the U.S. pledge of peaceful reunification. Moreover, he pointed out that countries that do not recognize each other nevertheless sign treaties. (One example: the Laos truce agreement, signed by the U.S. and Red China.) The fact remains that a non-aggression agreement...
After his speech, Adenauer took time to inspect the special offices in Bonn's Parliament Building that are being made ready for him to occupy after his oft-postponed but now firmly promised retirement as Chancellor this fall. When he steps down, Adenauer is supposed to confine himself to being a parliamentary Deputy, national chairman of his Christian Democratic Union-and the oldest surviving member of Arminia...
With some 125 East-bloc agents arrested every month in their divided country, Germans are blasé about spy stories. But the case that unfolded in a Karlsruhe courtroom last week proved that Bonn's vaunted Gehlen intelligence service had been infiltrated for ten years by the Reds, and that the organization had knowingly hired former Nazis. All three of the men on trial, longtime employees of Gehlen, were also longtime employees of the Soviet Union. By all odds, it was the most embarrassing spy scandal to hit West Germany since...
Many German women are fighting a determined rearguard action, nonetheless. Sales of foundation garments have quadrupled since 1950, and slimming parlors have become almost as thick as Germany's beloved whipped cream. In Bonn, where a session at the stylish Salon der Figur ranges from $6 for a plump pubescent to $125 for a well-marbled dowager, Owner Helga Pietsch sighs: "Ninety percent of the German women who come in here don't even know what a calorie...
...anniversary of the first Telstar broadcast, CBS last week presented Town Meeting of the World, bouncing the faces and voices of Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Jean Monnet and Heinrich von Brentano off the orbiting Telstar II. Ike was in Denver, Eden in London, Monnet in Brussels, Brentano in Bonn. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite was in New York...