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...Hungary's Fasching was traditionally a time to blow off steam before the onset of Lent's rigors. It was banned by Hungary's Red rulers. But now, with their tolerance, Farsang (pronounced for-shong), is making a comeback-not so much as a pre-Lenten spree as a chance to escape the austerity of everyday life under Communism. Explained one blonde merrymaker: "We celebrate from the morning after New Year's right through Lent, and on to Easter...
...buying spree in Paris left the Right Bank gasping across the Seine at the Left. In the austere Berggruen Galeries the trio waltzed in, snapped up 50 lithographs. Steaming into another gallery, they flabbergasted the owner by buying up, at 33% off, all the works of an unknown Sunday painter. Within hours after their arrival in Paris, word of their vacuum-cleaner technique spread around the town, and the work began coming to them in their hotel. "They've started bringing their mothers', wives', brothers' and ex-wives' paintings in now," said Price...
...fill the city's five miles of beaches, 1,200 hotels and boardinghouses and scores of nightclubs. Some vacationers went south because they could not afford a European trip- "conditions" being what they are. But most were working-class families determined not to forgo their one gala spree of the year...
...automakers, the only one that has failed to benefit from the nation's current car-buying spree is the one that needs it most: South Bend's Studebaker Corp. With its sales for November running 13% below a year ago, harried Studebaker has seen its share of the U.S. auto market drop to a precarious 1.1%. Studebaker does not need to move a lot of autos to make a profit; in 1959, the year the Lark was introduced, the company earned $28.5 million on sales of 137,000 cars. But Studebaker is currently selling cars at an annual...
...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...