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...economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized" in a reunified Germany. His speech was strictly a personal expression, and had not been officially cleared with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; thus it was both a trial balloon and the subject of domestic controversy in Bonn (see below...
...surefire segment that required about as much daring as kicking a dog around, Paar showed familiar film clips of campaigners working themselves silly: Thomas E. Dewey with citizens dressed as cavemen, Indians adopting Coolidge, John F. Kennedy kissing a baby, and a wanly smiling candidate ascending in a balloon bearing the immortal legend: SCRANTON'S ON THE RISE...
...same time, figures released for April indicated that some of the swell was gone from the inflationary balloon. Unemployment was more or less static at 3.7%. Durable-goods orders declined 3% to $23.9 billion, and housing starts, after a good March, dropped 4%. Industrial production was up, but it was the smallest gain since last September...
...impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...
...beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...