Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German invasion of Europe was at flood tide last week. Only this time, instead of carrying guns, the Germans clutched fistfuls of lire, francs, guilders, dinars, schillings. Some 5,000,000 of them are pouring south and west in an eager tourist flight from the greyer skies and industrial soot of their prosperous native land. "It is the fresh air and sunshine that we like best," gushed buxom, blonde Use Schultz on the beach at Ostia. "It is so wonderful to feel the sun scorching until it hurts." In Italy the Germans outnumber American tourists, though they do not outspend...
...Germans this year will spend an estimated $400 million on their European travels. About 30% of them are students who go by bicycle, motorcycle or hitchhike, and often camp out. Another 60% are the middleclass, ranging from teachers to small businessmen, who travel by car, railroad or bus and live in small hotels and boarding houses. The remaining 10% are the wealthy, the Ruhr industrialists and Frankfurt bankers, who make their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French...
...same is true in cameras. Through the efforts of such topnotch firms as Nikon and Canon, whose cameras are cheaper and almost as good as the best German makes, Japan now enjoys a $6,800,000 export market in the U.S. The Japanese are convinced that it could be bigger still were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from...
...last car in all Paris," he is able to prevent its being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward safety but north to where the colonel's heartthrob waits. As German staff cars whiz by, the colonel speaks to his lady (Nicole Maurey) of matters urgent: "In the cathedral of my heart, a candle was always burning...
...candle finally gets pointed in the right direction-south-and the rest of the film rattles along in an unpredictable Tin Lizzie of adventurous comedy, underscored by the slowly developing admiration of the colonel for his shy, uncannily ingenious passenger. Later, when the colonel comes swaggering into a German trap, pontifically confident that he can outwit the whole Nazi army, the picture explodes into a mock-chase climax that is sentimental, funny, and equally satisfying on both counts...