Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three big fashion shows, just concluded, not only displayed the smart ready-to-wear clothes that have helped put chic into German life; they were also an eye-popping showcase for the girls themselves. Since more than 1,000 models are needed for each of the big shows in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, more than half of them are recruited from offices, universities, cafe society-and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the amateur beauties from the pros...
...obscure, brown-shirted band of fanatics who called themselves the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei-Nazis for short-bought their first newspaper. It did not seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...their own Musik fur Millionen, which pipes soothing background music into offices, bars, hotels and stores in six German cities. Three young Americans-Cecil Altmann, Robert S. Mackay, and John F. Herming-haus-pooled their savings and borrowed from their families to score strikes with bowling alleys in Berlin, Munich and Milan, last winter opened a ski slope in Berlin that uses man-made snow...
Born. To William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor, 56, son of Virginia-born Nancy Astor, who in 1963 made the family's Cliveden estate almost as famous for profumation as it was for pro-Munich politics before World War II, and Lady Astor, 33, former model Bronwen Pugh: their second child (his fourth), second daughter; at Cliveden...
Servant Shortage. Even the sweeping statistics do not show how substantially inflation has changed everyday life in Europe, and the extent to which it has hurt pensioners, .civil servants and others on fixed incomes. Beer now costs almost as much in Munich as in Milwaukee-170 a pint. Italian housewives have to pay 290 apiece for oranges that cost them 210 last year, and the common varieties of pasta have risen from 90 a Ib. to 130. In Paris, where the price of steak is $1.22 a Ib. (for biftek, the lean cuts from the round, rump...