Word: br
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon a little boy curled up in the grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter [My name is Peter...
Rearguard Action. The explosion of vital statistics is amply evident from the island of Sylt, where pneumatic nudists jounce across the beaches, to the Spanish coastline, where bulgy Brünnhildes have already made the authorities regret their decision not to enforce a longtime ban on bikinis. West Germany's men's wear industry in recent years has had to add a new clothing classification, tactfully dubbed Boss or Manager size; nearly a quarter of all new clothes are now bought by customers of managerial girth, while sales of "normal" sizes are diminishing...
...what they could, the government restricted akvavit sales to a bottle per customer. And word went out that unless something is done this week, fully a third of all Sweden's liquor stores will be out of akvavit altogether. Bootleggers turned up furtively with the popular Brännvin akvavit, asking $20 for the bottle which normally sells for $5. "A disaster," muttered one Swede, waiting his turn in a Stockholm queue. In the south, some desperate Swedes were even hopping ferries across to Denmark to seek relief at Copenhagen bars...
...retired time and again, but like Brünnhilde emerging from the fire, she kept making reappearances-a six-week charity tour of 25 concerts, an astonishing, exhausting month-long recording session in which she filled twelve albums with a full Wagnerian repertory. At 60, the heroic soprano range was still hers-not the top C, perhaps, but certainly the top A, clear, strong, unfailing...
...Prinzen Bräu will sell for the same price as Italian beer-16? per bottle-and should benefit from an intensive advertising campaign already undertaken by the Italian beer industry. Until recently, the industry's favorite slogan was "Drink beer and you will live to be 100." But that was dropped after not one of the 30 centenarians rounded up by the beer barons for a much ballyhooed Roman banquet would testify that it was beer that had done the trick. The industry's new slogan is a little more ageless: "Beer is good...