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McGovern, buoyed by his 38 per cent share of the New Hampshire vote, stepped up his schedule of appearances, focusing the final days of his campaign on St. Petersberg and Miami and an endless round of handshaking tours...
...British advisers might have recommended a bit more warmth of approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
...read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
...horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER...
...spirit that Schumacher symbolizes, more than the particular program he advocates, that catches the imagination of a nation that still dreams of Siegfried, finds it hard to learn from past errors and even harder to understand democracy. The spirit hovers constantly over the negotiators at Petersberg, reminding them, as they struggle for the Germans' help in solving "the Russian problem," that the old and dangerous "German problem" is itself still very much alive...