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Brandt hopes to follow up the speakers' exchange with a free exchange of newspapers between East and West Germany, more contacts with Eastern European countries, and more border passes. How well this all goes down with the voters will get its first test in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections scheduled for July 10, four days before Brandt goes to his first debate at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany...
...youngest brother, a pretty-faced punk known as Fifi, was the black sheep of the family. At 21, when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million francs to a notorious...
Protestant Protest. Casinos are still illegal in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Bremen, but the 13 licensed casinos in the rest of the country draw 1,600,000 visitors a year for a house profit of $75 million. They flourish mostly in venerable resorts like Bad Neuenahr, Baden-Baden, Travemünde, Bad Kissingen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, even though the crowds are overwhelmingly big-city businessmen, secretaries, clerks and housewives, who go home peaceably after they have lost $10 or $15 in an evening. Protests the Protestant weekly, Christ and World: "The last barrier against the burning German...
...coincidence, the montage appeared the same day last December as West German President Heinrich Lübke's annual game hunt for diplomats in Westphalia, giving the Iranian ambassador opportunity to vent his indignation point-blank to the chief of state. Lübke's sympathy for the envoy's case was hardly reduced by the fact that the Stadt-Anzeiger had vigorously opposed Lübke's re-election as President in 1964. On a New Year's Eve TV program, he announced without mentioning names, that a journalist had "disparaged a friendly head...
...elevate his four brothers and three sisters to positions in the Empire that they were ludicrously unsuited to fill. After Austerlitz, for instance, he made his misanthropic brother Louis King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara...