Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Hochhuth's article appeared in the weekly Der Spiegel, Erhard, ever sensitive to personal criticism, could restrain himself no longer. "Today it has become fashionable for poets to be social critics," he exploded in a speech at Düsseldorf. "If they are, it is of course their good democratic right. But then they must permit themselves to be addressed as they deserve-as philistines and nitwits who pass judgments about things which they simply do not understand." In another speech he snapped that Hochhuth was a kleiner Pinscher (small terrier). As for Grass, Erhard growled: "There...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...
Never on Sunday. A hostel, police are quick to point out, is not a house. Houses of prostitution were banned in Germany in 1927, but prostitution itself is condoned. Absent from the hostel are the pimps and madams of the house. In Düsseldorf's cupboard of tarts, the girls pay only for room, board and services, just as they would in a normal hotel. Moreover, their hostel is a place of immaculate order; noisy guests are ordered to leave, and drunks are not allowed in. In Stuttgart's eight-year-old Drei-Farben hostel, business...
...reshape the EEC's structure. Above all, De Gaulle wants to trim the wings of the Eurocrats, stop what one French official angrily described as the "supranational escalation in the commission's daily method of action." A rarely aroused Hallstein retorted in a speech at Düsseldorf that, if De Gaulle throttled the Common Market's drive toward unity, "this would be the greatest destructive act in the history of Europe, and even the free world, since the days of Hitler." Which only caused Paris to underline in apoplectic purple yet another priority on its list...
...Aided by this reliance, Italian steel output has shot up 41% in seven years. A similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit to Düsseldorf. This competition, anguishing to German and U.S. steelmen alike, may soon sharpen. Reason: even bigger ships now in the making (up to 100,000 tons) are expected to halve the present transport costs of coal...