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Horse Goulash. The new class of big-time duty dodgers is made up of businessmen of outwardly high repute, worthy of being called mein Herr. Unlike other smugglers, they do not usually seek to avoid customs altogether, in stead try to beat down the duty they have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain...
...fourth quarter, the Townies scored twice more and coasted to a 24-20 victory-their 28th in their last 34 games. Grimy faces wreathed with toothless smiles, they bussed their wives and girl friends, and drove off to Coach Luiselli's house for a victory dinner of chow mein, noodles-and beer...
...mein Gott," said Erhard in mock terror. "I hope with me you will work faster. What will you paint...
...retired Baptist minister, Baptist Freberg is dead serious about lis latest advertising campaign. "I did t for God," he says. "I feel I was destined to do more than just move how mein off a shelf...
...bookstore with 4,000,000 volumes stashed in seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...