Word: westphalia
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...Charles de Gaulle and of the "eternal" bonds of understanding that now link Europe's once deadly enemies. Coolly he brushed aside impatient newsmen who were more interested in a stunning domestic development: a sharp regional election upset last week of his Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's richest, most populous state, comprising one-third of the whole West German electorate. Last September the C.D.U. lost its absolute majority in the federal Bundestag, was forced to rule by entering into an uneasy coalition with the small Free Democratic Party. Now, in its second major...
Though the Socialists traditionally do better in local elections than in national ones, Adenauer's Christian Democrats ran nearly 400,000 votes ahead of the Socialists in heavily industrialized North Rhine-Westphalia-a Christian Democratic gain of 7% of the total vote over the last local elections in 1956. In the Socialist stronghold of Lower Saxony, the Christian Democrats polled 28% of the vote, v. 20% in 1956. The Socialists barely managed to hold onto their...
...Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years. He went then to a 40-year-old Basel art dealer named Ernst Beyeler, with whom he had long been trading pictures. Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built. Last week most of the other prizes, once offered to Pittsburgh, went on the block...
...books in all the libraries of Europe were distilled in [his] brain." His name is Ebenezer Cooke, and in this boisterous historical farce he emerges as one of the most diverting heroes to roam the world since Candide was expelled from the Castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh in Westphalia...
...name," growled Franz Josef. "I shall see to it that you disappear from this corner." True to his threat, Strauss promptly fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license. And from the West German policemen's union came an irate demand that Strauss...