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...Adenauer had them torn down before Hitler arrived and refused to greet him. That abruptly ended his career as mayor, and he was classified as "politically unreliable." He spent the next twelve years alternately in prison or reading and tending his roses in the hillside villa he built at RhÖndorf. There, near war's end, he was nearly hit by an American shell as he watched the advancing U.S. Army cross the Rhine...
...funeral obsequies themselves were planned to take careful note of the detailed habits and personal preferences of der Alte. Through the streets of the village of RhÖndorf, where he had so often walked, rolled his caisson, passing the white Catholic church in which he had worshiped, crossing his beloved Rhine on a ferry beneath the brooding Drachenfels. It proceeded over the exact route through Bonn that Adenauer had always taken on his way to the Bundestag. There, on the very spot where for 14 years as Chancellor Adenauer had presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin...
Died. Konrad Adenauer, 91, the man who made a new Germany; of influenza and bronchitis; in RhÖndorf, West Germany (see THE WORLD...
...Sencer cited examples: > The wife of an Army sergeant was said by a hospital laboratory to have group-B Rh-positive blood and was given transfusions of that type. In reality, her blood was group 0; she suffered permanent kidney damage. - Twin boys were born to a woman in Alabama whose blood had twice been typed as Rh-positive; actually it was negative, and the twins died of a blood-destroying anemia. Indeed, of 328 blood-disorder deaths in the newborn studied in California, 34.5% were associated with laboratory errors, and many could have been prevented. - A newspaperman...
French industry is atomized into countless small, family-owned firms, whose self-satisfied owners are often reluctant to risk expansion or spend for modernization. Of the 30 biggest industrial companies outside the U.S., twelve are German, ten British, but only two are French (Renault and Rhône-Poulenc). Expansion capital is hard to come by. Frenchmen are wary of investing, often prefer to sock their savings into real estate and gold. They have seen too many investments demolished by wars and inflations, and their fears have hardly been allayed by the 40% plunge in the French stock market since...