Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three cars came to a halt in the village of Rhöndorf, across the Rhine from Bonn. While they waited, a tall old man, whose face is a graven image, strode down the 53 steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
...German capital in his native Rhineland. "The future capital of Germany should be located among the vineyards," said he, "not in potato fields." One by one, Adenauer ticked off the other possibilities: Berlin-"a city where the monkeys still swing from the trees"; Frankfurt-"too immoral." Adenauer plumped for Bonn, which, conveniently, was within easy commuting distance from his home in Rhöndorf. As usual, he got what he wanted...
...tough nationalistic line. Fortnight ago, several clumps of penny-ante Hitlers got together in something called the German Reich Party, and have blatantly put forward such candidates as Dr. Werner Naumann, former state secretary of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, recently arrested (and released) for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bonn Republic and Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, a onetime Luftwaffe ace now living in Argentina. Busy last week warding off the left, Konrad Adenauer threw a worried glance over his shoulder at such distressing signs on the right, warned his countrymen not to play with that kind of fire...
BELGIUM'S Sabena airlines began the world's first scheduled international helicopter service between Brussels and Rotterdam, soon will extend the service to Bonn, Cologne and Lille...
Economics. The West German Industrie Institut made East German mouths water by publishing the facts & figures of West Germany's boom. Bonn's gold and foreign-currency reserves are at an alltime high ($1.4 billion), at least twice those of France. West Germans are eating better, building more homes (440,000 last year) than at any other time since...