Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trickle Down. A little bit of the new trade money has trickled down to East German workers. A West German magazine has compared East Germany's latter-day progress to the West German level of 1949 ("Eat your fill and dress modestly"). This probably gives them now the highest living standard behind the Iron Curtain. The ineffable East German Communist Boss, Walter Ulbricht, a Soviet citizen, now proclaims the inevitable propaganda slogan: "Catch Up with West Germany in Per Capita Production...
...slender young woman in the ivory-colored dress stepped out of the limousine in front of the Tokyo palace of Crown Prince Akihito, it was all that the police could do to restrain the 8,000 cheering teen-agers from mobbing her. "Suteki! Suteki!" the teen-agers cried -"Glorious! Glorious! Our future Empress!'' Michiko Shoda, 24, daughter of a flour magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities...
...Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat, they have become Germany's new, powerful, cultural fifth column, whose god is Elvis Presley, whose idols are their own stars, and whose encyclopedia is the comics...
This was, of course, the position at which the Elis had been most seriously crippled by injuries. Starter Tom Singleton was somewhat lamed by an ankle sprain; and his first and second substitutes did not even dress for the game. This left the burden of the quarterbacking to an ex-jayvee named Andy Kugler, who was simply not up to the task...
Back at the Annex, however, angry words are being spilled over bowls of dull pineapple chunks. The Radcliffe honor system, about the only virtuous thing left in the world these days, is seen doomed; and kuties who cultivate the seedy demeanor are complaining that now they will have to dress-up when they take integrated finals...