Word: rhine
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...unified Europe under French leadership-an ambition that was pursued in the past by Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III. To De Gaulle, Europe's rivers and mountains are not barriers, but the oceans are. Since 1940 he has dreamed of persuading the "states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization as one of the three world powers, and. should it become necessary, as the arbiter between the Soviet and the Anglo-American camps...
Representatives of Bell and Stanton, a New York public relations firm which represents Fine Wines of California, will guide the group through seminars on Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Rhine wines, and on brandy...
...conduct of the meeting. One of the officers, moreover, prepares an explanation of the background of each of the wines. Thus in a recent meeting, seven white wines of Germany were chosen. Two well-known wines of the Mosel region were compared to three popular wines of the Rhine region. Contrasts were further made between the Rhine and Mosel on the one hand, and on the other hand, to a wine from the Stein region, and one from Alsace...
...uproar in Bonn last week sounded little like the usual well-oiled functioning of the Federal Republic of Germany. All the factions in Bonn seemed to want weary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, to cross the Rhine to his rose gardens in Rhöndorf, and stay there. At week's end der Alte at last agreed to do so-in about a year...
...room mansion in Providence, former Senator Theodore Francis Green, who retired last year as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, spent his 95th birthday sorting through stacks of greeting cards, gifts of German beer and vintage Rhine wines for his well-stocked cellar. Then, after a brief celebration with old friends, the venerable Green dictated a congratulatory birthday telegram to another Democratic patriarch: Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, the oldest man now serving in the Senate...