Word: lederhosen
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...have been all too well observed; on the Riviera, police in helicopters and afoot have been hard pressed to keep them in clothes. However, they have settled one question that has long tickled European imaginations: most Germans look better with their clothes off than with their Lederhosen...
...German, he was top man at Pelham (N.Y.) Memorial High School, top freshman at Princeton, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and won a Carnegie grant for summer research at the University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known for wearing lederhosen even in winter, Kreisler says that "I don't think I have ever consciously considered grades as a goal." A Marshall scholar, headed for two years at Oxford's Balliol College, he wants to be a teacher-scholar. His main interest is man's "preservation of the ability...
...summer sun beat down on Europe last week, there was the perceptible rumbling of Germans on the move. By car, canoe, and kayak, the advance guard of 1.2 million German campers in Lederhosen and halters swarmed all over Europe in an annual migration that has made the German camper Europe's most ubiquitous tourist and unseated the camera-toting American as the most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains...
Earnest students of culture, the German campers efficiently map out their trips to the last detail, often spend a year planning their itinerary. In some cities, street hawkers do a thriving business renting clothes to hairy-legged Germans kept out of historic cathedrals by priests who consider Lederhosen unsuitable wear...
Standing side by side in an open-top black Mercedes-Benz, the statesmen rolled off on the 22-mile drive into town. It took them 1 hr. 40 min. Church bells pealed, car horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich...