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...French town of Apach, De Gaulle boarded the carnation-decked pleasure boat Strasbourg, along with West German President Heinrich Lübke and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, to begin the four-hour cruise along the Moselle to Trier, across the German border. There, De Gaulle hailed the project as one of "the first fruits" of the recent Franco-German rapprochement. After "so much pain to which this river was a sad witness for centuries," said he, "we have been able to sail down it together, without meeting any resistance except that of ribbons...
...agues of malaria. By 1840, chemists isolated salicylic acid and thought they had a wonder drug, only to have physicians drop it quickly because it had too many harmful side effects. In 1853, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt did a bit of molecular manipulation in his Strasbourg laboratory and made acetylsalicylic acid (C9HSO4). Having found it, he failed utterly to appreciate its value, and put it on the shelf...
...Common Market Commission's financial vice president, Robert Marjolin, is a Jeremiah who takes any opportunity to cajole or frighten the member nations into closer cooperation and more central planning. In Strasbourg to deliver his annual economic report to the European Parliament last week, Marjolin warned the Six of galloping inflation that threatens the Market's whole structure...
...faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign of beauty among the Tuaregs, and many tribesmen force-feed their wives on macaroni and goat's milk just as the people of Strasbourg stuff their geese...
...train 25,000 students as well as any schools in the world do. The Sorbonne provides some brilliant lecturers, and determined stu dents can get a mind-opening education. But the impression is now general in France that a better schooling can be had at provincial universities: Grenoble, Lille, Strasbourg, Dijon, Bordeaux and others...