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...dressed in white blouses. A few middle-class retiree couples from Wisconsin and Iowa staying at a nearby recreational-vehicle park danced cheek to cheek when there was a slow number. Then there were Mexicans in wide- brim hats and shy girls with dark eyes and red lipstick. John Klingemann, the Brewster County deputy sheriff, leaned quietly, arms folded, against a parked pickup truck in the street near the frolicking dancers. "Reckon a third of the folks here are from across the river," he offered. "They'll all go home again afterwards...
There was no shooting this night. The dance ended promptly at midnight. The crowd, inspired by Deputy Sheriff Klingemann's quiet presence, downed the last of some 700 cans of beer sold during the evening and melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds...
...guests-Hans D. Klingemann, a professor at the University of Cologne-was roused from bed by the students. After a brief bilingual conversation with the students, Klingemann left, telling reporters the students were "very polite...
...sessions of the conference proceeded with lofty and generous discussion of the work of the church in the world. A notable exception to unanimity was an objection to a resolution which declared war to be unChristian. The objection came from the Germans, was voiced by Lutheran Bishop Klingemann...
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