Word: westphalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East German press has said nothing...
Secret of Success. "The secret of my success," Founder Philip Rosenthal boasted, "is a combination of American merchandising ideas and German craftsmanship." The son of a Westphalian china merchant, Rosenthal ran away to the U.S. at 17, punched cows in Texas, rode horseback mail routes in Colorado, wound up heading the glass and china department of a Detroit department store. In 1879, when he was 24, Rosenthal returned to Germany to buy china. Instead, he bought a castle near Selb, in the heart of North Bavaria's famed porcelain country, and started turning out decorated chinaware. By 1934, when...
Fritz Winter left his job as a miner in a Westphalian coal shaft when he won a scholarship at the Bauhaus. When the Nazis clamped down, Winter scraped together enough money to buy a hillside farmhouse in Bavaria. As a front, he set up shop as a maker of wooden knickknacks. His real work he did at night, painting abstractions that reflected the grimness of the times. Says Winter of one typical painting, which shows four heavy, black hammer forms relentlessly assaulting a doomed crystalline structure: "I was a seismograph; I was under a heavy weight in those years...
...course of studies duplicated nowhere else. Its purpose, says Brugmans, is to expose the student to a new attitude and a whole new field: "Europology." Under such teachers as Jan Tinbergen, The Netherlands' top economist, Walter Hoffmann, director of the Institute of Economic and Social Studies at the Westphalian State University of Munster, Paul Guggenheim, professor of public international law at Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies, and British Historian John Bowie, each student concentrates on three out of eight broad subjects offered: history, political science, economics, law, sociology, geography, administrative science, European institutions. Every year, before...
...sseldorf, Dr. Wilhelm Meyer-Cords, chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of Germany's Space Research Society, told fellow rocketeers that U.S. scientists are probably already at work building a space station. In case anyone doubted him, Dr. Meyer-Cords also presented a paper by Space Prophet Wernher von Braun, guided-missile expert for U.S. Army Ordnance. Von Braun already has plans for a man-carrying rocket that can reach the moon. His rocket would carry 20 passengers and make the round trip in ten days. Give him some $4 billion, says Von Braun...