Word: autobahnen
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...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...
...Gunman. Cruising the Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh...
...result was considerably less exciting than the hullabaloo that went on outside the hall. Moscow, objecting to holding the West German election in Berlin, had made noisy threats before hand. Allied officials nervously watched the Autobahnen, expecting some kind of traffic obstruction by the Russians, and scores of police with walkie-talkies moved into position to guard against Communist demonstrations at the voting hall...