Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of issues. In foreign affairs, Scheel and Brandt agree on all fundamental points, including the need to retain West Germany's strong commitment to the West while seeking better relations with the East. Though political infighting provides one of the few diversions in the otherwise small-town atmosphere of Bonn, Scheel has scrupulously refused to be a participant. As a result, he has almost no serious political enemies. "I do not take part in back-stabbing," he says. "Those who wield the knives usually end up sticking themselves...
Crumbs with Wine. For $30 a head, more than 100 correspondents were treated not only to nuances but to the best show in town. Conservative priests pitched curves at the liberal panelists; ladies from obscure papers posed puzzles that glazed the panel's eyes; a German asked his questions in Latin; and an Englishman periodically stood up to say, with plaintive sincerity, "I don't understand...
...partnership with two local builders, Westinghouse Electric is buying 8,000 acres south of San Francisco for a complete oceanside community. Beer-making Anheuser Busch recently bought 4,000 acres of Virginia countryside near Williamsburg and will develop an industrial town. Boise Cascade Corp. (1968 sales, $1 billion) has spread into almost every corner of the business: factory-built houses and mobile homes, on-site homes, apartments, leisure-home projects and urban renewal...
...nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell, for instance, reassuring, since it signifies that evil has been expunged? Or is it unsettling, because it calls to mind a dreadful spectacle too heartily enjoyed? Such questions elude the historian...
...with loathing for the lead-souled villagers who come to her for love charms and poisons. The book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young girl, "as children always are." The author knows what the town square of Liège smelted like; she can read the minds of judges three centuries dead. Witchcraft lives, and so does the novel...