Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1920. In July 1943, I lost members of my family, friends and my home through Anglo-American air raids, which almost destroyed my home town. These raids on Hamburg and other German cities, terrifying and hate-inspiring as they were at the time, played a decisive role in destroying Hitler's totalitarianism. Now I am a Canadian citizen. I am firmly convinced that my present religious and political freedom are owed directly to American participation in World War II. I do not envy President Johnson's position...
HERMANN NOELLE Hamburg, Germany...
...satisfied, they sank their spare income in the Autowelle, deserting bicycles and motor scooters for automobiles, and after that in the Wohnungswelle (new homes), and then the Reisewelle (fad for traveling). Now things are right back where they started, but on a higher, more sophisticated plane. Explained one Hamburg University political scientist: "Food is an obsession with Germany. It is the symbol of everything the people lacked in the poverty and destruction of war. The most effective way a German has to remind himself that he is now prosperous is to be able to afford the most exotic foods...
...whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup. Rollenhagen's in West Berlin operates a year-round airlift...
...GROSSE HAMBURGER HAFENKONZERT (Polydor). Three LPs of harbor concerts from the port of Hamburg complete with gulls, ships' horns, and a seaworthy selection of North German songs...