Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swampy, flat, coal-coated zone of smokestacks and smelters. But there are those who love it and want to share it. In May, the Local Residents' Organization (L.R.O.) of the much-maligned Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr region) will offer its first tourist "adventure" through West Germany's industrial heartland. The idea, says the L.R.O.'s Dietrich Springorum, is to shed the region's grimy stereotype and show "that it is not only fascinating but has its beauty spots...
...Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat of U.S. and British forces...
...jobs. As of 1972, migrant workers made up 10 per cent of the work force in industrial western Europe, and much larger proportions in specific industries. It is migrants who man the assembly lines at Renault and Volvo, who dig the tunnels underneath Geneva, who make asbestos in the Ruhr--jobs which native workers avoid as much as possible...
...David Ruhr, director of the Princeton program, said yesterday that it has proven to be an extremely successful means of reacquainting alumni with campus life and has recently been adopted by Dartmouth and several prep schools...