Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Günther Rössing, 63, captain of the Bremen, Germany's newest and biggest (702 ft., 1,200 passengers) luxury liner; of a heart attack while standing on the bridge of his ship midway in the Atlantic, while bound for New York...
Protestant Protest. Casinos are still illegal in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Bremen, but the 13 licensed casinos in the rest of the country draw 1,600,000 visitors a year for a house profit of $75 million. They flourish mostly in venerable resorts like Bad Neuenahr, Baden-Baden, Travemünde, Bad Kissingen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, even though the crowds are overwhelmingly big-city businessmen, secretaries, clerks and housewives, who go home peaceably after they have lost $10 or $15 in an evening. Protests the Protestant weekly, Christ and World: "The last barrier against the burning German...
...plants hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles from even the meagerest deposits of raw materials. Last week, in a move that emphasized this trend, West Germany's sixth largest steelmaker, Kloeckner-Werke, announced that it plans a $25 million expansion of its eight-year-old plant near Bremen...
...seat all the way, highjacks the Triumph and takes off like That Man from Rio on an obstacle course that leads to Athens (hurling down stairways, stomping his pursuers unconscious), to Naples (driving off an Italian embankment in a hair-raising detour), finally to a full stop in Bremen (bed rest). By then, Backfire has gunned up a lot of excitement?for a movie operating on borrowed...
...record of another exporter adds to the embarrassment of the U.S. Of the 90,000 bales that Russia shipped to Bremen last year, only 95 were subject to arbitration...