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...towns in Europe recalled the disastrous traditional enmity between France and Germany more strongly than the pleasant spa of Bad Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass...
...There are some who say that we have nothing left to say, that we did all we had to do after 1945," exclaimed Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, his wiry hair flying, his sharply whittled nose pecking the air with indignation. Before him in Scarborough's Spa Grand Hall, some 1,500 Labor Party delegates sat in somber conclave last week for what all presumed would be their last annual conference before a general election in the spring...
Back in Formosa, Choi was packed off to recuperate at Peitow, a sulphurous spa near Taipei. There Choi woke up one morning to find he was paralyzed from the hips down. He telephoned a friend at Taipei's Friends of China Club. "I'm at Peitow, and I'm paralyzed," he said, and added-in his awareness that Peitow is a famed carousing place: "Please don't laugh...
...mass-production missiles (the Army's ground-to-air Hawk and the Navy's air-to-air Sparrow III), is subcontractor for electronic devices for twelve other missiles and for equipment for the 6-52 and the 6-58. It is also manufacturing transistors, and their successor spa-cistors, for everything from field radios to satellite innards, hopes to raise its $60 million-a-year civilian business to $150 million by 1965 with such items as weather radar, tiny radar sets for pleasure boats, diathermy equipment for hospitals...
When the 32 Saudi royal visitors (all male), their aides, and seven tons of their luggage at last arrived in a motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept...