Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violin is Yehudi Menuhin's first concern, but not his only one. The 63-year-old virtuoso is an outspoken opponent of energy waste and pollution: to help eliminate both, he is currently test-riding a battery-powered bicycle. Meanwhile at the 31st Frankfurt Book Fair last week, Menuhin received the booksellers' peace prize of $14,000 as "a man who understands music as a medium for peace." Using the medium as a measure of his appreciation, Menuhin rewarded his audience with the chaconne from Bach's Partita in D Minor...
Determined to paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...
BROADER DOLLAR PROPPING. Until now, in their efforts to keep the dollar from falling too sharply against the muscular mark, the U.S. and West German central banks have confined their buck-bolstering efforts mainly to the New York and Frankfurt markets. Now they have agreed to intervene in all financial centers. Reason: the world money markets have become so sensitive and intertwined that a drop in, say, Hong Kong ripples rapidly throughout the world...
...holiday, to provide better cover, I would leave Washington on one of the presidential fleet of Boeing 707s. It would land at Avord, a French air force base in central France. My plane would touch down just long enough to let me off; it would then proceed to Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport. I would have transferred meanwhile to a Mystère 20 executive jet belonging to President Pompidou for the flight to Villacoublay Airport, a field for private airplanes near Paris...
...impending arrival, much less of our mission or predicament. Fortunately, we established contact from the airplane with General Vernon Walters, our defense attache in Paris, in a radio hookup through Washington. Walters went to the Elysee Palace, where President Pompidou himself authorized his jet to meet my plane in Frankfurt...