Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even those Western Europeans who shrank from the possible consequences of the British and French "precautionary measures" took the possibilities of war seriously. Bonn, averse to any interruption of West Germany's $450 million trade with the Middle East, stood opposed to forceful action yet reported gloomily that the British and French seemed in dead earnest about closing in on Nasser. Italy sent Ambassador Giovanni Fornari flying to Cairo with an urgent appeal to Nasser to soften his stand, sweetened it with a hint of big Italian construction help (FIAT) on the Aswan...
...telephone operators−all, it seems, experts at tracking down staffers or newsworthy figures anywhere in the world− handle 25,000 calls. In the Wire Room, Teletype circuits interconnect all our U.S. and Canadian news bureaus, and a radio Teletype service gives instant contact with London, Paris, Bonn, The Hague, Rome and, soon, Tokyo. The Teletype systems add up to the most extensive private network in the magazine publishing field. "Its main feature is the speed with which we can get in contact with our bureaus. It's like bringing a worldwide organization into one office," says Osborne...
...Flaming Cherub. The discussion groups at Frankfurt's fair grounds on the Kirchentag's second day were broken up into six themes, but by far the biggest drawing card was "People and Politics." Bonn government officials were on hand to listen, and from East Germany came Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke and President Johannes Dieckmann of the East zone's rubber-stamp parliament. While Nuschke fidgeted and nervously massaged his nose, a crowd of 12,000 heard Evangelical Leader Günter Jacob of Cottbus, East Germany describe the sinister magnetism the totalitarian state exerts upon man. Applause...
...dresses each at prices ranging from $700 to $3,000). Manufacturers from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue were there to buy dresses for reproduction (up to $1,800 for an evening gown);copyists spied out the buttons, bows and furbelows that will sprout on readymade clothes from Brisbane to Bonn this winter...
Plugs & Pressures. Chary as he was of words that might commit him, Nehru was as usual generous with advice. In Bonn he urged his West German hosts to seek reunification of Germany by "peaceful negotiations." In a speech before the German Foreign Policy Association at Königswinter he put in a vague plug for liberation of Russia's East European satellites ("They are, of course, under a certain domination . . . and I certainly believe they should be free") and a firm one for Red China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling...