Word: autobahnen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police are driving the custom out of style. But in Europe, the autostop, as hitchhiking is known in internationalese, is a thriving student institution. In universities across the Continent, and on many U.S. campuses too, college kids are about to dust off knapsacks and take to the open Autobahnen, routes nationales, carreteras and autostrade...
Europe argues otherwise. In Germany, for example, the Autobahnen are sleek, straight and alive with Volkswagens and Opels, yet the express-train business is booming. "Improved service will automatically increase the number of travelers." says a German Bundesbahn spokesman, and he finds it especially true on fast downtown-to-downtown runs...
...gone to work. Women comprise a whopping 34.3% of the West German labor force, and often hold down jobs in formerly all-male provinces. Gas tanks along the Autobahnen are often operated by coveralled frauleins. Bonn has female barbers, policemen and butchers. Women outnumber men in 22 industries, from hatmaking to public relations, and they own one out of five businesses. There are 43 women in the West German Parliament, including the Minister of Health. Even a beer-hall political discussion is no longer safe; Die Zeit's Marion Dbnhoff, an attractive countess, is a widely quoted political columnist...
More important, the crew's Soviet colleagues were still avoiding trouble along the Autobahnen and in the air corridors. For the third straight week, U.S., British and French commercial planes and military convoys moved into Berlin without harassment. There were MIGs in the skies, all right, but they were en route to spring maneuvers in East Germany...
...please its customers, the European Exchange System (2,918 branches), biggest of 14 PX districts, has built seven PX drive-in snack bars along West German Autobahnen with such names as Java Junction and Dine-A-Mite. Over the past ten years the European System has nearly doubled its stock of items, which now includes Italian fashions, men's custom-tailored suits, frozen pheasants and ten different brands of can openers. The PX system also includes barbershops, delicatessens, auto parts shops, dry cleaning and laundry service, and shoe, watch and radio repair shops...