Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luxury tour of 51 Americans. Although they have paid more for their food, fuel and transport since the Suez crisis, the tourist-conscious Britons have kept restaurant and hotel prices at the same level as last year while raising the quality of tourist meals. In London, one Mayfair pub owner has installed a charcoal grill for the U.S. trade...
...turn to one's neighbor in a crowded pub and suddenly pop such questions as these might seem eccentric behavior, but in Britain these days it is not only acceptable but fashionable. The neighbor will probably try for the answers, and he may also in turn demand that his inquisitor "complete the following by filling...
Eight to the Bar. In London. Publican Harry Sternshine won permission from the London County Council Public Control Committee to use an amplifier in his pub when he argued eloquently that louder music was required to attract people away from...
...next two days, while the whole mob goes mullocking about the outback with gully-rakers, the boy don't seem to have a bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course, a pongo cobber shouts Smiley a bike, and everything is bokker. Got the flaming drill...
Personality: Paunchy, moonfaced, tousle-haired, Ollenhauer presides placidly over his party's bureaucracy, delivers cautiously hedged speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have...