Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caviar Every Day. Another lure is a flock of door prizes that recently included a purebred horse and a white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives...
...Wall and the evil things happening behind it have an irresistible attraction for West Berliners, who flock along its length by the thousands to stare across for hours on end. Some are just curious; others hope for a glimpse of some now separated brother, cousin or lover. Intricate signals are worked out to arrange these rendezvous of stares and waves; indeed, a portrait of two typical Berliners today might well show each gazing at the other through binoculars, for this is the common sight along the entire wall of Communism...
...dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move their feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while the arms thrust in, out, up and down with the pistonlike motions of a baffled bird keeper fighting off a flock of attacking blue jays...
...West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle of European unity whose new. growing organizations-notably the Common Market-are remaking the scarred old face of Europe and changing the balance of power throughout the world...
...done," explained a Yankee spokesman. Hard-shelled Ralph ("The Major") Houk, 42, who won a pennant in his first year as a big league manager, had a disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this business of managing is a simple thing," said Houk. "All you need is a flock of .300 hitters, several 20-game winners on your pitching staff, some speed, and some power. Once you have that, you're a cinch...