Word: kreuznach
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...towns in Europe recalled the disastrous traditional enmity between France and Germany more strongly than the pleasant spa of Bad Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass...
Closer to Equality. At Bad Kreuznach, De Gaulle skillfully countered France's critics. In a show of moderation, he agreed that the 10% tariff cut and the minimum 20% increase in import quotas which the Common Market six will accord one another's goods beginning Jan. 1 should be temporarily extended to outside nations, while some kind of "multilateral association" is worked out between the six and the rest of Europe. This was not enough to satisfy Erhard. But Adenauer is desperately anxious for Germany to forge an unbreakable alliance with France...
...Young Lochinvar. In Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, after he stole a 50-ton M-47 tank and chugged for a seven-mile joy ride, Private Walter F. Brown got a two-year prison sentence despite his explanation that he took the tank to show his girl friend that he could drive...
...German colleagues, Dr. Forssmann took up surgery. He was captured during the war. Since his release from an Allied P.O.W. camp in 1945, and a stint as a lumberjack, he has been supporting his wife and six children as a general practitioner in the little town of Bad Kreuznach in Rhine province. Last week he learned that Stockholm's Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute, only 27 years behind the times, had named him, together with Richards and Cournand, to share the 1956 Nobel Prize for medicine ($38,633). Said the German country doctor: "I feel like a village pastor...
...Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...