Word: dusseldorfers
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...have to protect themselves against possible drops in official rates that can come at any time. Different banks in the same city offer exchange rates that vary by as much as 4% on the same currencies, and hotels change money at substantially worse rates than banks. The Hilton in Dusseldorf, for example, gave only 3.25 Deutsche Mark to the dollar last week, while the official rate stood at 3.38. Dublin's Royal Hibernian Hotel offered 37 new pence to the dollar, while American Express gave 40-a spread of 7½%. For those who wish to get the best...
Died. Franz Stangl, 63, Austrian-born commandant of the Nazi death factories at Sobibor and Treblinka in Poland; of a heart attack; in his prison cell in Dusseldorf, Germany. During 1942 and 1943, when he ran Treblinka, Stangl supervised the slaughter of over 400,000 people. Wearing a spotless white SS jacket and sporting a long riding crop, he often arranged for brass bands to entertain his captives as they were herded into Treblinka's infamous gas "showers." Captured by American troops and turned over to Austrian authorities, Stangl escaped in 1947 and fled to Brazil, where he worked...
...entire party drove to the Moscow television tower restaurant for after-dinner coffee, Kosygin suddenly ordered the driver to stop the auto and took Brandt for a 20-minute walk along Kalinin Prospect, Moscow's most modern shopping street, whose glass-sheathed buildings could easily stand in Dusseldorf or Rotterdam...
...ashcans, not even Jerzy Grotowski's Holy Auschwitz-are quicker or more deadly than Eugene lonesco's best: when he bothers to aim, he can knock the cigarette from one's lips at 40 paces. As Death and the nun came together onstage in Dusseldorf in the world premiere of lonesco's The Triumph of Death, applause spattered through the theater...
...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...