Word: cken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maternus, named after a 4th century German bishop, successfully combines food, service, atmosphere and personality. Its kitchen turns out such specialties as Filet Wellington, Sole Nantua and Kalbsrücken Orloff, a veal steak that serves ten. The wine cellar contains an outstanding assortment of Moselle. The tables are decorated with well-worn pewter, the five public dining rooms provide the kind of labyrinthine privacy that politicians prefer, and the two private rooms are perfect for In-timpolitik. Presiding over all is Owner-Hostess Ria Alzen, a 55-year-old divorcee of quick wit and ready warmth. Because...
Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
...world, known for their scholastic excellence in the mold of the system that in France itself educates 1.5 million students be tween the ages of eleven and 18. Most outsiders, and perhaps many of the parents who pay lycée tuitions ranging from about $6 in Saarbrücken to $200 in Madrid, Istanbul and Mexico City, think of the overseas lycées as largely local institutions. Actually they are supported, at a cost of $28 million a year, plus 14,500 teachers drained at great sacrifice from the internal French school system, by the Cultural Affairs Department...
Endless Brücken. Much of the memorializing occurred in places where Kennedy had lived or visited. A member of the House of Representatives' parks subcommittee proposed changing the name of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park to the John F. Kennedy National Seashore Park; the Massachusetts legislature received a proposal to emboss "Land of Kennedy" on the state's license plates, in the style of Illinois' "Land of Lincoln." In West Germany, where Kennedy toured triumphantly last June, the Bavarian mint began striking gold and silver medallions bearing Kennedy's likeness and the legend...
...Berliners is the hero of the 1948 airlift, Special Presidential Envoy Lucius D. Clay, 64, who has become the image of a calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed around by the Russians. "If we are pushed around and harassed," says Clay, "we have...