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...Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake, all 16 of the current crew have been banished to the piney...
...Next to chimney sweeps and blacksmiths, the people whose services are least in demand nowadays are those who sport long hair. "I tried to get a job in a supermarket, then as a newspaper copy boy, and later as a service station attendant," recalls John Wayne Suggs, 18, once a typical long-haired unemployable. "But they'd take one look at me and say 'Get out.' " Without benefit of a barber, he finally found a career...
After she was taken to the Sherwood Hotel in Hornell, thawed out and given a hot meal, she took off again about 4 p.m. Her plane narrowly missed the chimney of the last house on our street. She landed just at dark in Binghamton. N.Y.. a distance of about 110 miles from Hornell...
...roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over it all in a red suit and white beard, ho-hoing and passing out free candy to his young visitors. "We didn't make any money on the place. You see I didn't think I'd live long then so I just...
...open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with just such equipment; and for Olney, to know the source is to know the soul...