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...parts of Asia. After the ceremony, German Catholic and Protestant churchmen and the visiting dignitaries followed the coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...
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...
...doors to the future. Which would they choose? Western diplomats, disheartened by the fall of Schuman and De Gasperi, guessed timidly that Adenauer and the dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...
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