Word: salami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Czechoslovakia's CSA is the best of a dubious bunch. Its pilots are relatively prudent, and its stewardesses-who tend to be long-limbed, cool blondes-are the most stylishly dressed. They serve Pilsen beer and the standard Eastern European airline fare of cheese, salami and black bread. On the ground, too, CSA is more efficient than the others. Prague's airport is modern and attractive and has a reasonable restaurant. Taxis are usually available...
After a quarter of an hour, the comrade director relinquished the controls and the aircraft resumed its straight and level-more or less-course. Such incidents are not uncommon in Eastern Europe, where flying aboard the national airlines-known to veteran travelers as "the salami lines"-is often a surrealistic experience. TIME'S Eastern European Correspondent William Mader has been a frequent passenger over the past two years. His appraisal: "Flight with the Eastern Europeans is often hectic, uncomfortable and even, too frequently, hair-raising. The reasons are Communist inefficiency and relative backwardness, lassitude and native temperament. Even though...
...case of young Ginsburg, his teachers would be Jewish, Mediterranean and Irish in just the same proportion as his own ethnicity. So would his curriculum-and, for that matter, his school lunches. For Ginsburg, this varied diet would alleviate the relatively high content of polyunsaturated fats found in blintzes, salami and the other elements of the J cuisine...