Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their interest was more than passing. TIME, to them, is one of their principal weapons for dealing with the flood of Communist propaganda that sweeps into their home areas from Eastern Germany - and points farther east. In the North Rhine-Westphalia area alone, reported Hans Joachim Oertel of Düseldorf, 256 Communist journals are distributed. TIME, he found, was his best rebuttal to their propaganda...
...Konrad Adenauer was as cross and jumpy as a baited bear and as busy as a bee at twilight. Reason: Der Alte (the Old One), as West Germans call their indomitable leader, was afraid his C.D.U. (Christian Democrats) might lose a crucial provincial election this week in North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the largest and most important of West Germany's nine states (it contains the Ruhr). Its nearly 10 million eligible voters would only elect 200 new deputies to the state legislature at Diisseldorf, but they were also rendering judgment on how much Konrad Adenauer's popularity...
Last week Naumann addressed a beer-hall rally in Hanover that was grimly reminiscent of early Nazi fracases. Local officials in Westphalia tried to get him banned from the ballot but the publicity would probably do him more good than harm. The betting was that his DRP would win several seats...
...strange, graceful birds, fashioned of metal tubes and plywood or canvas, were again hovering over Orlinghausen Field, a heather-dotted plot of land in Westphalia which most Germans know well. There Germany took to the air in gliders, after the World War I victors had decreed that the conquered must not fly powered planes. There future pilots came to train, in a kind of Luftwaffe kindergarten. After World War II, the victors prohibited flying again, but lifted the ban on gliders two years ago. Last week Orlinghausen was the scene of Germany's first postwar gliding championships...
Knowing, Being, Believing. Haus Villigst was a typical farm estate, battered and sagging under waves of wartime billeting, when Hellmut Keusen discovered it in 1948. He promptly persuaded the Evangelical Church of Westphalia that this was just the place to try out a new idea...