Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days last week, it seemed as if the episode could be avoided entirely. Bearing an important message, Ambassador Tsarapkin helicoptered 170 miles from Bonn to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's weekend home in Stuttgart. Over glasses of light Swabian wine, the two men chatted amiably as the Soviet diplomat explained a way out for both sides. If the West Germans would withdraw the Federal Assembly from West Berlin, the East Germans would allow West Berliners to pass through the Wall during the Easter holidays to visit relatives in East Berlin, the first such passage permitted in three years...
Both singers will probably end up in Germany next season. Cochran has offers from the Stuttgart and Munich operas, and Russell wants to learn the language while developing his technique in a Wagnerian atmosphere. Meantime, Melchior took them both in tow after the audition for a basic introduction to the Heldentenor regimen: a trip to a Danish restaurant in Manhattan for smorgasbord, aquavit and beer in truly heroic quantities...
...billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those in any other area of the country. And, according to statistics recently released by Deutsches Industrieinstitut, the state capital, Stuttgart (pop. 614,000), has edged out the Ruhr's Duisburg as the German city with the highest proportion of industrial workers: 24 out of every 100 v. Duisburg...
...state have increased their sales by 50%, to last year's $900 million, and electronics industries by 26%, to $2 billion. Machinery manufacturing has achieved an annual growth rate of 6%, reaching $2.4 billion in sales in 1967. Many large U.S. companies have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through...
...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...