Word: westphalia
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...elections last week in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's most populous state, 82-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats found the winds anything but contrary. The opposition Socialists, thinking that their surest bet was to campaign against "Atomic Death," in opposition to the Chancellor's policy of atomic rearmament inside NATO, were swept from office. The Christian Democrats won an absolute majority, the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia history...
...only wife to be similarly surprised. Hundreds of others in the Rhineland, Westphalia, and Bavaria were getting similar mail, and, despairing or vengeful, according to their temperament, rushing off to military posts to wave the letters in the faces of their baffled husbands...
...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
They chose to strike against him not in the federal Bundestag, where they are outnumbered 251 to 48 by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Instead they organized a revolt in the provincial legislature of North Rhine-Westphalia, which contains the rich Ruhr. Free Democrats made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote...
...Bonn the old Chancellor glowered. His local defeat had national repercussions: seats in the federal upper house are chosen by the local governments. He was thus deprived of North Rhine-Westphalia's five votes there, and lost his two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat. Adenauer needs the two-thirds majority to put through constitutional changes permitting German rearmament...