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...above the Alzette River in the eastern Frankish empire. Though Sigfroi's wife soon vanished-she turned out to be a water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well as the smallest country in the United Nations, in whose behalf it sent an armed and eager platoon to Korea...
...country's 1,000th anniversary, the solid, easygoing Luxembourgeois looked forward to a long summer of low-key celebration, including a dog show, endless wine festivals, an international stamp exposition, and a visit by two planeloads of kinfolk from Chicago, which is said to boast more Luxembourgeois than Luxembourg (pop. 320,000).* The mystery is why they ever left in the first place...
...French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry is one of the world's most productive. "Luxembourg," its citizens say with satisfaction, "belongs to the Luxembourgeois...
Politically, Luxembourg is a family-style democracy in which street cleaners greet the Prime Minister by his first name. If a citizen gets mad at the government, he has only to dial 219-61 to hear a telephone operator reply, "The Government," and direct him promptly to the appropriate official. For economy's sake, virtually every member of the Cabinet runs at least two ministries. Premier Pierre Werner, 49, who is also Minister of Finance, is a genial, tireless Christian Socialist who bustles around the country in an ancient official Buick as concernedly as if the Grand Duchy...
...only encourages unions to ask for more money. Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that it has never allowed a journalist or a press photographer into its plant. Luxembourg's huge Arbed firm, within whose châteaulike headquarters few outsiders have ever ventured, will hardly do more than admit that it makes steel...