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...balance of exports is heavily in favor of the U.S., which is flooding the world market with superb teeth, great bones and fresh skin. More than 60% of the top models working in Paris, Hamburg and Munich are American. A high proportion of the models on the runways and in the photographic studios of Milan's fashion industry are from the U.S. Japanese talent scouts are so avid for fresh faces that they hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo...
After a stay in Munich or Hamburg, these impregnable Yanks move on, and none too soon, to the softening influences of Milan and Paris. Here the pace of business in photographers' studios seems lackadaisical; great blocks of hours crumble and disappear as assistants putter and the photographer unconcernedly takes his ease. There are still some in the business who have not learned about promptness. Yet business is the wrong word; what is going on in a French or Italian studio is the creation of art, and art must not be hurried. (The French and Italian editions of Vogue are rich...
After 35 years he had become an almost forgotten person, living quietly in a small house in a suburb of Hamburg. Yet when he died at 89 of progressive heart disease, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who commanded Hitler's navy during World War II, once more stirred up a controversy. Sensitive to both Nazi memories and controversial aspects of Dönitz's career, the West German government forbade formal or military trappings at the admiral's funeral this week...
...years later, George Harrison had joined the Quarrymen, and the band was actually earning some money They had their own fans, and a growing reputation that took them to club dates in the gritty seaport of Hamburg, West Germany, where they eventually changed their name to the Beatles and got a double dose of the seamier side of rock life Lennon, who like the rest of the boys favored black leather jackets, pegged pants and stomper boots, was sending long
Under Proposition 2 1/2, city officials predict municipal services would resemble Hamburg's in 1945. City Manager James L. Sullivan estimates that Cambridge's property tax would be cut 60 per cent over six years and the city would lose one third of its annual budget. In the first year, Cambridge would have to lay off a third of its police force and firefighters, more than a third of its teachers and public works employees, close health centers, branch libraries and community schools and stop underwriting public celebrations. When Proposition 2 1/2 is fully implemented, "there will not be sufficient...