Word: limburger
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...election campaign is concentrated in Bonn and the country's bigger cities. Yet it is in the smaller towns and countryside, where 60% of the nation's 60 million people live, that the election will be largely decided. Typical of that quiet majority are the citizens of Limburg on the Lahn, a town of 21,000 in the geographic heartland of West Germany, 40 miles from Frankfurt. Relatively rich, traditionally conservative, proud of its 1,000-year history, Limburg (not to be confused with the province in Holland that is the home of the Limburger cheese) accurately reflects...
...Frankfurt, Germany, no kin to the Detroit Fords but nonetheless a well-known name to Germans as the genial, efficient boss of the U.S.'s biggest consulate anywhere (500 employees), contributing strongly to rising commercial and cultural relations; of a fractured skull sustained in a car accident near Limburg, Germany...
...painful effort by West Germans to purge the nation of its Nazi past by finally facing the facts of how and why 4,000,000 Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
...goal of 25,000 cars, Van Doorne has had a hard time finding enough workers in the labor-short Netherlands, recently took on 1,200 Belgians at DAF's Eindhoven plant. Pleased with their work, he plans to build a second DAF plant in Belgium's Limburg province, where coal-mine automation will ultimately idle...
...Brussels one morning last week, 130 taxicabs were stalled by the cold. In The Netherlands' southern Limburg, milk companies gave up their bottling because the milk froze and cracked all the bottles. In Vienna services at famed St. Stephen's Cathedral had to be moved into the crypt. The people of sunny Nice, all set to celebrate the city's annual carnival, opened their windows to find a blanket of snow covering streets and palm trees. In Rome at least one moppet, seeing Rome's first real snowfall in his lifetime (ten years), begged permission...