Word: zeitung
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Some of the sharpest gibes at Johnson's efforts came from allied nations, but most of the grumbling had to do with style. The Stuttgarter Zeitung complained about "exaggerated publicity," Le Monde called it "the noisy drive," having more "publicity value than practical bearing." More fundamental was an undertone of criticism of Washington's refusal to negotiate with the Viet Cong as a political entity...
Suddenly the signature of Old Astronaut John Glenn, 44, was showing up everywhere in Hamburg, Germany-on eggs, on a banana, on two Fräuleins' foreheads. In town with his wife Annie on a West German good-will tour, Glenn discovered that the daily Bild-Zeitung was juicing up the visit with a contest. WHO WILL GET THE MOST UNUSUAL GLENN AUTOGRAPH? the newspaper bannered, and all day John signed...
...Glenns flew wearily off to London, the contest editors announced that the winner was a house painter who got Glenn to sign a prepaid telegram and sent it on to the Bild-Zeitung. His prize: three glorious, fun-filled days visiting a German rocket institute...
...result, by general agreement, was the most exciting interpretation of the Nibelungen legend ever. The usually reserved audience in Bayreuth's red brick Festspielhaus stamped and cheered till the rafters shook. Munich's conservative Siiddeutsche Zeitung described the production as "a truly sensational feat of music and stagecraft, which surpassed one's highest expectations. A pace-setting event in the history of opera...
...nightclub jokes, songs, editorials and politics. A British M.P. recently became so fired up by the delaying tactics of the House of Lords that he declared in the House of Commons that the Lords had "put a tiger in my tank." In a straight-faced editorial, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung feared that the tiger campaign could unleash "the beast of prey in drivers." Riding on the tiger tale, Esso stations in Europe are pumping record volumes; in France, April sales of Esso Extra rose 32% over last year. Italian motorists now drive up and ask station attendants simply...