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Word: helgoland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education for 540,000 youngsters. - Fighting disease are 42 free-world medical teams, including Cuban refugee doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent its hospital ship, Helgoland; and Canada donated equipment for ten 200-bed portable emergency hospitals. G.I. medics and Navy corpsmen, resting from battle duty, have treated hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and there are 21 U.S. military medical teams ministering full time to civilians; by the end of June, 39,700 patients were being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Moving Forward | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: A Piglet for Onkel | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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