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Idea from Oktoberfest. "My grandfather in Austria was an innkeeper, and so was my father," Jahn says. By the time Friedrich was five, he was serving pretzels in the family tavern in Linz. After World War II, he became headwaiter in Munich's Intermezzo, a strip joint that for some reason also served food. In 1955, he invested his savings of $3,000 to acquire a nearby winehouse. Refurbishing and a hearty, inexpensive menu kept the eatery full. Jahn's real breakthrough came after a slightly tipsy customer suggested that he feature the kind of roast chicken sold...
...denies that Europe has made at least some progress toward social unity. Labor, for instance, moves freely throughout the Six. But the Dutch attorney cannot practice in Lyons, and the French engineer stands little chance of finding work in Turin. More distressing, says Munich Lawyer Martin Sattler, 28, is that "the youth of Europe are still looking for a political unity under which they can grow older. They haven't found...
...against Russians living in exile and working for the overthrow of the Moscow regime. The last known case was the 1959 murder, with a special cyanide pellet fired from a pistol, of Ukrainian Exile Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich...
...Radio Liberty. Although ostensibly private organizations, they have received considerable financial and editorial aid from the CIA (which is, of course, "empowered to undertake unspecified activities abroad," and does). Radio Free Europe is manned by embittered anticommunist intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and broadcasts from Munich, but its handbook states that it "cannot take a line contrary to United States Government policy or to the beliefs of the United States and American institutions." Radio Liberty (formerly Radio Liberation) is designed to foment anti-Soviet aggression wherever socialist take-over beckons. Both Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty...
Died. Dr. Phil Edwards, 64, physician and Canadian Medal-winning runner at three Olympics; of a heart attack; in Montreal. Edwards starred in track at New York University, later became an authority on tropical and chest diseases. At the 1936 Olympics in Munich, he and other black athletes, including Jesse Owens, debunked the Nazi theory of Aryan superiority...