Word: oktoberfest
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Tutor Award program science and math tutoring at Bureau of study counsel Adams house committee social chairman Organized Adams house café Organized House Activities Including Oktoberfest, St. Pat's Celebration the Raff Race...
...West Germans celebrated Oktoberfest last week, the country fairly crackled with an excitement and ebullience that went far beyond the enjoyment of Gemüitlichkeit. On the streets, in restaurants, beer halls, offices and shops from West Berlin to Bavaria, West Germans could be heard engaged in a great, continuing national debate on the election that will be held Nov. 19. The vote, beyond ending a deadlock that has turned their Bundestag into a cockpit of frustration, will amount to nothing less than a referendum on the future of the Federal Republic. It will decide whether West Germany will continue...
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...
...horses will return once a year for Munich's 16-day autumnal beer bust, the Oktoberfest. Then, geared in blue velvet and leather harnesses, they will take up their old station in the Gabelsbergerstrasse and trot out daily to the festival grounds with wagons bearing garlanded but empty wooden kegs. At the same time, fume-belching trucks will deliver the real stuff in aluminum barrels...
...Meaning "March beer," because it is brewed in March and ages until the Oktoberfest...