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Asked for the secret of his evergreen energy by a delegation of West German sportswriters, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85. gave all the credit to the Italian game of boccie and life at his breathtaking, Rhine-commanding villa south of Bonn. "Since 1937," he explained, "I have been living at Rhondorf, where I can only get home by climbing up the path. It is more than 50 steps." Another advantage of the hillside location: the villa - although one of the finest in the whole Rhine Valley - was not appropriated by Occupation officers after World War II, "because," suspects der Alte, "they...
...tone job with fetching eyelashes. The two set out for the French border 400 miles away. The arrangement works beautifully; Marguerite feeds Fernandel when he is hungry, and he tells stories to her when she is bored. The Germans never tumble. Eventually they reach the Rhine, and by this time Fernandel and Marguerite are in love. All the bridges have been bombed, and tearfully he tells her that she must stay behind, "where you know the customs and the language...
...them." "Although," remarked Acheson, "the temptation to tease the Chancellor is very great. I have known Adenauer for twelve years now; he tells me I am not as young as I used to be. I have just seen him; he took me to his beautiful old house on the Rhine which he bought for his retirement in 1937! All his neighbors had gathered on this beautiful April Sunday to applaud him as we stepped out of the car. He gave a little speech introducing me as his dear friend, Mr. Acheson, so they clapped gently...
...calamitous day early in 1953, a howling northwester teamed with a wild spring tide. The resulting floods were the most disastrous to afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal...
...Concrete Piles. At the Eastern Scheldt 72 caissons will be needed, and at the Brouwershavensche Gat, 32. The most challenging project is the three-mile-wide Haringvliet inlet, through which an estimated 50% of the combined waters of the Rhine and the Meuse pour out to the sea. The plan is to close Haringvliet with massive sluices anchored to the sea bot tom by 20,000 concrete piles. In the winter and spring, the 400-ton sluice gates will open to vomit out ice sweeping down the rivers...