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Word: stiftung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fears of encroachments by the automobile and TV on a great national institution, a recent survey shows that walking is still West Germany's No. 1 Sunday recreation. Both the cities of Essen and Bonn last year staged highly successful community "walking days." A two-year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation has even coined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Togetherness on the Trail | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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