Word: hamburged
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...Great Hamburg Blight--a disease as crippling in its way as the Dutch one that knocks off elms--has long since withered the sickly local strain. Harvard Square burgers are invariably thin and grease-sodden, often gray and crumbling, and occasionally even square in shape; encased in that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle...
...untill about four months ago, only Long Island had managed to escape this national disaster. Garden City, N.Y., bastion of decent food, boasted a chain of three hamburg stands (all of which, to boost the appeal of their product, were forced to serve their standard 1/4-pound burgers by means of model electric trains...
...Luncheonette (in the past little more than a collection of odds and ends: a good part of a stationery shop, half of a grocery more, and just a truncated bit of a soda fountain). Reportedly, Bartley had been dissatisfied with this assortment of leftovers for some time; and a hamburg revival became his means for a change...
...occasional interfering signals, as if the Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer of stratus...
Hans Gresmann, of Die Zeit, an independent paper in Hamburg, asserted that only a miracle can give Willie Brandt's Social Democratic Party a ruling majority in September's contest, the fourth since the establishment of the Boun Republic in 1949. In the 1957 election Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union gained 50.2 per cent of the national vote, against 30 per cent for the Socialists...