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Slaughtered Legion. The federal a-polis has widely unnoted theatrical and opera companies and a dozen or so mediocre nightclubs, boasts only three starrable restaurants: the elegant, century-old Adler, a favorite of government gourmets and gossips called Maternus, and La Redoute, a rococo mansion where Beethoven once performed. For members of the 88 diplomatic missions in Bonn, the main diversions consist in attending one another's parties-at least 20 a week-and the American Club's Wednesday night bingo game. The Old Bonn families keep strictly to themselves; so do the town...
...city's antipathy to outsiders dates back to Roman times, when a legion garrisoned in "Bonna" was decimated by the warlike Batavi. Today local resentment manifests itself in Bonn's constant fight to keep the government from taking over existing buildings or precious real estate. Recently, with bipartisan backing, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier disclosed plans for a new parliamentary center on the Rhine, consisting of a 25-story office building for Deputies, a twelve-story hotel and an 18-story press center, as well as a series of bridges across the railroad tracks. Bonn's burghers protested...
...grandson wants to leave holy orders and marry you!" Marcello bites his nails until Sophia returns. "Let's make love in the kitchen!" he suggests with an eager leer. "Help!" the old lady hollers again at the back door. "He's going to join the Foreign Legion!" And so on, till at last Sophia starts to strip, then suddenly stops...
...vast and steadily growing international legion of Georgette Heyer addicts, everything is as clear as Madeira. She is resorting again to the elegant Regency slang in which she has indefatigably chronicled the goings on of blooded Britons in the age when old King George III was too dotty to rule outright and his son, the Prince Regent, had not yet acceded to the title as George IV. What the butler means, obviously, is that his Lordship, while putting away a lot of the stuff, has been seldom if ever drunk...
Until recently, military education was a welter of waste, duplication and congressional bewilderment. In 1961, Katzenbach was brought in to organize military learning, coordinate it with civilian education. Katzenbach, whose younger brother Nicholas is U.S. Deputy Attorney General, had the right pedigree for both sides. He earned his Legion of Merit as a Marine officer at Eniwetok, his Ph.D. at Princeton. He taught history at Columbia, directed defense studies at Harvard and academic development at Brandeis...