Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn: Scholarly, ex-Harvard President James B. Conant may be followed by the State Department's skilled careerist and longtime Ike friend. Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy...
...Poland and Hungary, RFE was operating 29 high-powered transmitters out of West Germany and Portugal on a 20-hour-a-day basis to furnish the enslaved peoples with news reports, which the Communists tried to suppress by jamming. Last week RFE was attacked by West German papers and Bonn politicos, and caused some worried U.S. citizens (including NBC Commentator Chet Huntley) to ask a question. Had the RFE broadcasts actually helped spark Russia's reign of terror by giving the satellites false hope of aid from the West...
...Soviet zone (pop. 18 million) fell short of its quota for new housing by completing only 215,000 new dwellings, while West Germany (pop. 50 million) was finishing more than 2,000,000. In roughly the same period, real wages went up 50% in the East, 100% in the Bonn Republic. Last week West Germany released a telling statistic. In the impoverished East, autos are still restricted to a sprinkling of doctors, technicians, specially privileged artists and the Communist elite; in West Germany one person in 25 now owns an auto...
...shortage of hands, the A.P. sent George Boultwood from its Bonn bureau to Budapest to join its resident man, Endre Marton. Boultwood took along his 17-year-old son George Peter, who was soon filing his own byline stories from the Hungarian capital. The U.P.'s Anthony J. Cavendish scored a feat by covering the Polish rebellion in Warsaw, then flying into Hungary with a Polish plane carrying plasma. He landed 33 miles south of Budapest, hitchhiked to the suburbs, had to walk the last five miles. He sent out a fast-moving 2,000-word eyewitnesser...