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...constantly (he has spent only seven months of the past two years at his office), making arrangements with local teachers and principals, talking to education ministries. He made 272 trips over the short road to the state capital at Mainz to close an agreement with the Rhineland-Palatinate authorities...
Until last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats had won a majority among the rural, conservative voters of Rhineland-Palatinate in every election since the West German Republic was founded in 1949. But the latest vote for the state legislature gave the C.D.U. only 46 of 100 seats, and 44.4% of the popular vote, a loss of 4% since the 1959 election. The Socialists, by contrast, moved up from 37 seats to 43 in the conservative stronghold, taking 40.7% of the vote, a gain of nearly 6%. Cried Socialist Spokesman Fritz Barsig: "The ice is finally broken...
...C.D.U. would continue to govern Rhineland-Palatinate in coalition with the Free Democrats, but it was clear that its loss there was the most damaging that the party had suffered in five state elections in the past 16 months. Taking stock, C.D.U. officials were now certain that the fault lay with der Alte's obstinate fight to hang onto his post, blocking the succession of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
Mollet's proposal was immediately trumpeted across France by the right-wing press and the government's unabashedly partisan TV and radio network, which reminded Frenchmen of the unsavory Socialist -Communist -Radical "Popular Front" government that unforgettably permitted Hitler to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936. Backing away from Mollet's blunder, Socialist Party strategists in such strongholds as Marseille refused to make any deals with the Communists. In dozens of constituencies, including Mollet's, Communist candidates who scored heavily in the election's first round did in fact withdraw in favor of Socialists and other...
West Germany's Rheingold Express also uses spiffiness and speed (100 m.p.h. at times) to lure passengers on its run from Basel to Hook of Holland. Tourists can ogle the Rhineland from picture-window observation cars and, as on all German trains, eat a full-course gourmet meal for about $2.25. Now West Germany's state-run Bundesbahn is aiming for 125-m.p.h. service. In France the Mistral, which once hit 206 m.p.h. for the world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland...