Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, Hausfrauen all over West Germany have been practicing Hofknickse (curtsies). At the Munich mint, eight gold commemorative coins had been struck; a Cologne record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward...
...dined near Darmstadt with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and Rhine-the Queen's distant cousin and Philip's brother-in-law-in his 18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before the royal train arrived, and the Abendzeitung hung out a banner headline: GRÜSS GOTT, MAJESTÄT (God's blessing, Your Majesty...
Before taking off for a weekend at Salem Castle on Lake Constance with Philip's sister the Dowager Margravine of Baden, Elizabeth visited the Nymphenburg porcelain factory in Munich and watched the German Olympics equestrian team go through its paces. Over a lunch of lobster Vierjahreszeiten, duckling a I'orange, peaches Bavarian and four German wines, she heard Bavaria's Premier Alfons Goeppel talk of the need for friendship between Britain and Germany. "We have been slow, perhaps, in realizing this," he said. "But there the famous phrase of your nation applies-better late than never...
Good Beginning. To one observer from the Vatican secretariat, the meeting was "a good beginning." Father Erich Kellner of Munich, organizer of the conference, thinks so too, and will try to convene another session next year with a wider assortment of Red thinkers. For their part, the Marxists were also willing to carry on. "What did we get out of it?" said one. "Well, we decided it is really worthwhile to have more meetings. While this might not sound like much, it is a major step forward when you remember the atmosphere of ten years...
...Stroke. For Thannhauser, opening a gallery in Manhattan was a third start for the family business. His father, Heinrich, had given the Blue Rider group its first exhibition in his Munich gallery in 1911, followed it up a year later with one of the first comprehensive Picasso exhibitions and assured the gallery's fame. With the advent of the Nazis, the family had been forced to flee to Paris and begin again. But of the second Thannhauser collection in Paris, only a few bundled-up paintings, including a rare 1905 Picasso, escaped Nazi confiscation. They were enough to spark...