Word: duisburg
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...eight years the West German city of Duisburg has been sinking steadily-and Duisburg's anxious citizens have cheered every lost inch. In an engineering project of constantly increasing complexity, the city is being lowered on purpose, for Duisburg must sink to live...
...mark the shift in command, Hans Reuter delivered a valedictory to his stockholders (who include 30% of the company's employees) from the flower-decked stage of a movie theater in Demag's sleepy home town of Duisburg. Characteristically, Reuter called for more growth and more mergers-both on the part of his own company and Common Market industry as a whole. Said he: "Larger combines are necessary. If the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. have steel combines which produce 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons annually, we in Europe cannot be satisfied with works...
Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
...British military barracks in West Germany's Duisburg back in 1953, there were no closer buddies than handsome, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne and happy-go-lucky little (5 ft. 1 in.) Sergeant Reginald Watters. If Sergeant Emmett-Dunne seemed overly interested in Sergeant Walters' pretty German wife Maria, an ex-nightclub singer, nobody seemed to mind less most of the time than Sergeant Watters himself. Nobody seemed to mind less, that is, until the night of Nov. 30, 1953. That night Sergeant Emmett-Dunne and another soldier found Sergeant Watters hanging...
...result was a hurried order to British headquarters in Duisburg to exhume the dead sergeant's body. At this point another figure appeared on the scene: Sergeant Emmett-Dunne's half-brother Ronald, onetime private at Duisburg. Quaking with fear, brother Ronald turned up at police headquarters with a tale of hanky-panky in the darkness that led to the prompt arrest of Sergeant Emmett-Dunne...