Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness and silver nameplates drag in more kegs...
...Hanoi yelled that the U.S. was using "toxic gas." Utter found his decision to try gas again under investigation, even though tear gas has remained regular issue for all Marine units. Unless Washington orders otherwise, Lieut. Colonel Utter is likely to fare kindly at the hands of U.S. brass in Saigon. Privately, most of them think that he did the right thing under the circumstances-and that a reluctance to use tear gas is an unnecessary and even inhumane restriction in doing what is one of the most unpleasant and difficult jobs in the world...
...paratroopers, hauled up in front of Wessin's house near San Isidro. In the cars were Dominican Armed Forces Secretary Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, commander of the OAS peace force, and his deputy, Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, commander of the 82nd Airborne. The brass trooped into the house and trooped out again accompanied by Wessin y Wessin. Two hours later he was on his way to exile...
...looked as if a trap had been set for one of the nation's ten most wanted criminals. Lurking beside a crowded New York City parkway one noon last week were four busloads of police brass, 125 newsmen and a dozen patrolmen, including six cops in two prowl cars casing every passing motorist...
...industrial level, the pressure of price rises is, if anything, even greater. There have been recent price increases for copper, brass, tin, 20% of all steel products, and such basic industrial chemicals as sulphuric acid and alum. A 5% price hike by a major maker of machine tools is expected to be followed by others. Textiles are more expensive than a few months ago, and so are electric tape and heating oil. Last week three more producers increased the price of containers-historically a leading indicator of general price movements...