Word: westphalia
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...Sokolowski Hut. The 46,000 live in 104 camps scattered through Germany-104 Ellis Islands, with no entrances into the mainland of normal life. One of the camps is Augustdorf, in Westphalia. Nearly a quarter of the 1,800 people there have tuberculosis; 180 of the children are illegitimate. A spot on a lung in Augustdorf, as in the other camps, is a standard blackball against emigration; there is a black market in X-ray plates of healthy lungs...
Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...
...parliament's upper house, the Bundesrat, met first. In a simple 28-minute session the deputies, who are chosen by the state legislatures, elected as chamber president Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the lower house, the Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by the people, convened in the afternoon, the drama of free-speech government began. Little Paul Löbe, who had been president of the Reichstag until Göring took over in 1932, was temporary president because, nearing 74, he was the oldest delegate in the house...
Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students...