Word: westphalia
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...Ambassador Kenneth Rush's cocktail party. Joan was two hours late for the party given by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel: Teddy was only 20 minutes late for his appointment with Chancellery Minister Horst Ehmke. At a reception given by the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Teddy was 90 minutes late and Joan didn't show at all. And on the night of the concert, Teddy turned up 45 minutes late at the table where Foreign Minister Scheel and Ambassador Rush were waiting for him. The German press took note. The Silddeutsche Zeitung referred...
North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
...dirty his hands in the invariable give-and-take of political battle. He expected the voters to follow him out of gratitude, and for a while they did. But politicians seldom survive long on gratitude. When a slowdown in industrial activity frightened the coal miners of North Rhine-Westphalia last July, they deserted the Christian Democrats, demolishing Erhard's reputation as the country's No. 1 Wahllokomotive (vote puller...
...stock has been going down faster than any glamor issue on the Big Board. Climbing living costs have tarnished his image as the creator of West Germany's economic miracle. A sharp setback for his Christian Democratic Union in the key state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia took the steam out of his reputation as the country's No. 1 vote getter. Even his special relationship with the U.S. was called into question after he came away from a Washington visit in September without a promise from Lyndon Johnson to reduce the amount of money Bonn must spend...
...outraged Butchers' Guild of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany last week rallied under the slogan, "What's all this about the Neckermann pig?" Josef Neckermann, 54, the country's mail-order wizard, once again upset retailers, this time by offering through the mail half a pig for deepfreezing at half the price the pork would normally cost in the neighborhood butcher shop...