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...breaks out in September 1966. "Red" forces attack the "violet" (NATO) alliance, only to be stymied at the Rhine. The reds try an end run through "white" country (Switzerland) to invade "blue" country [France...
...traveler from Brooklyn did not lose her head entirely over such exotic enchantments. The Rhine, "for all its pretty white houses and for all its musty castles, can't touch the Hudson!" She met six sheiks but was unimpressed. "I prefer a nice Yale man." Sightseeing in Alexandria was on the dull side: "If anybody at a party ever asks me if I've seen a catacomb I can say yes, but that's about all I got out of the experience...
...ramrod back and unflagging vitality became legendary. He often attributed his staying power to the energies he stored up "during my strongest years," when the Nazis sacked him as mayor of Cologne and he did little but tend the roses beside his white hillside house across the Rhine from Bonn...
High & Dry. Duisburg's troubles began with the river Rhine. The city's commerce flows through its Rhine harbor, which is ringed with steel mills and swarms with barge traffic. Years ago, the river started falling. Dredging and straightening of the channel downstream had made the water flow faster, and the quickened flow lowered the river's level. It also eroded the river bed, which lowered the water level still more. Duisburg's vital harbor got shallower and shallower. Dredging the harbor to keep pace with the fall of the river would have narrowed its sloping...
...found an ingenious way out. Under the city-harbor and all-lie three rich seams of coal. Engineers figured that if this coal was extracted properly, the ground above would settle evenly, and the whole harbor region could be lowered by as much as 7.5 ft., permitting the lowered Rhine to fill the harbor once more. There was $150 million worth of coal below the city, and it could be sold to pay for most of the surface damage caused by the settling...