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Under the towering cast-iron statue of a busty Mädchen who symbolizes Bavaria, Munich crowds gathered at the Theresienwiese fairground last week for the year's biggest community beer bash, the 16-day Oktoberfest. Dating from the come-everybody wedding reception 155 years ago of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest today is an excuse for games, gourmandising and, among Bavarians, whose per capita annual beer consumption is 218 quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than...
...range of resorts is strung along the 135-mile-long northern coastline. To the west, some eight miles from the Montego Bay airport, is famed Round Hill-less of a jet-set fairground than it was five years ago, but still a cosmopolitan cluster of airy shareholder houses around a crescent bathing cove that is carefully combed for spiky sea urchins and other subterranean surprises. If their owners are away, visitors may be able to rent the Henry Tiarkses' capacious "cottage" (British Press Lord Esmond Rothermere is currently in residence), or the William Paleys' swimming-pooled pavilion (where...
...million U.S. Science Pavilion, which stands at the summit of the fairground's gently sloping site, is a buoyant, crystalline stylization of the Alhambra (see color), with soaring arches of Gothic lacework and arcades of Moorish tracery. Covering an area larger than six football fields, it is the biggest exhibit based on a single theme ever assembled by government or private industry, will later be used for educational and scientific purposes. One of the fair's most spectacular features is its International Fountain, designed by two young Tokyo architects whose plan won a $250.000 international competition last year...
...with housing them. The howls of local citizens evicted from apartments to make room for visitors have been loud and anguished, and rents have pyramided. The fair's Expo-Lodging operation has already made 370,-ooo room reservations, has 60,000 beds listed within 30 miles of the fairground...
...Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make a lawyer and go to Congress...