Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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officials figured that the Germans were shrewdly saving their concessions for the new administration. Last week Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard knocked these hopeful expectations flatter than a Flensburg flounder. His big black cigar jutting out of his pink-cheeked face, Erhard formally handed U.S. Ambassador Walter Dowling a seven-page financial aid plan that called for little or no real contributions from Germany's overstuffed pocketbook...
...number of shy male track stars. Tentative applause rippled around the gloomy tiers of the Garden at the mention of her name by the announcer ("The woman of the year in all sports through the world"). Then Wilma began to run with her long, floating stride, and suddenly the cigar-chewing track buffs-the men who had seen them all-began to cheer like schoolboys...
Wilma won her first heat by 10 yds. Before the semifinal, she whiffed spirits of ammonia to clear her head ("Cigar smoke always gives me a headache, and there's lots of cigars here") and again won by 10 yds. In the final. Wilma came off the blocks a split second behind the field. Then, as an appreciative, hoarse male bellow swept through the Garden, Wilma turned on her speed with 30 yds. to go and won as she pleased. Her time of 6.9 sec. tied the world record she herself had set last month in Los Angeles...
...date on the U.S. . . . We are dealing with a highly sophisticated people, and it's time we got rid of our folk-image of the American as a boob from Hicksville with a cigar in his face, a camera round his neck, and a roll of dollars to buy culture with...
...battle against integration is going against Leander Perez. Some Louisiana newsmen be lieve that his influence is waning. But those who know him best think he is just waiting for his next move. "I always take the offensive," Leander Perez once said, daintily flicking an ash from his omnipresent cigar. "The defensive ain't worth a damn...