Word: koblenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trained and ready for service within 48 hours. Of these, fewer than half will join NATO forces under latest reduced targets; all the rest will belong to Von Horn's Territorial Defense Command. A 4,000-man nucleus has already been assembled in the last two months around Koblenz and Cologne...
...fact that Germany was partly to blame for the unhappy development." Among responsible West Germans, the most widespread reaction was the realization that all of the Allies were responsible for 1) the partition of Germany, and 2) the opening of Europe to Communist invasion. Said the Rhein-Zeitung of Koblenz: "Yalta was Stalin's great victory over the freedom of the world. The West itself held his stirrups...
Plenty of European cities are luring tourists with serious music this summer, but Koblenz (pop.: 92,000) has a different idea. Koblenz offers a big pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
...Koblenz keeps it largely a home-town production. The local Rhine Philharmonic, a 40-piece orchestra, is the musical backbone of the performance. Koblenz' young singers and budding ballerinas make up the cast of 200, and 40 strapping youngsters, male & female, of the Poseidon Swimming Club perform in the aquacade act. For the top roles, some talent had to be imported. Of one guest performer, a Koblenz official proudly reported: "Oh, he's first class. He sometimes even sings on the radio...
...show has been selling out every night. The attitude of the Koblenz city fathers: let Edinburgh, Salzburg and Bayreuth have the heavy stuff. At the present rate, the City of the Operetta Festival can expect 100,000 customers by the end of summer...