Word: godesberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Godesberg, Saarbruecken and Cologne, Algerians have been gunned to death in the street. In every case the attackers got away...
...extraordinary congress at Bad Godesberg last week, West Germany's Social Democratic Party, defeated in the past three elections by Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democrats-and by increasing margins, formally shed the Marxist principles upon which it was founded 96 years ago. The new platform favors "a free market wherever free competition really exists." Instead of a rigidly controlled economy, it now seeks "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary...
...whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER -TROISDORF WELCOMES...
While Western leaders from Camp David to Bad Godesberg sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation...
...because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long for protectionism and cartels, and cry for the removal of the man to whom they owe so much. They are now tired of Erhard, the apostle of free trade and competition. (At a recent Bad Godesberg business dinner, an old friend of the Chancellor's, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, insisted that Erhard must...