Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephones, but the citizens of Grafton, Iowa (pop. 254), are learning that fortunes can be made out of empty beer cans. The town fathers celebrated Grafton's centennial last month by ordering up 48,000 cans of "Hundertjahriges Jubilaum Beer" (the town has a lot of German descendants) from a Minnesota brewer. They ordered another 12,000 empty cans as souvenirs. The beer has done a brisk business at $1 per can, but the empties, at the same price, have done even better, thanks to ads placed in two magazines published for beer-can collectors. The demand proved...
...much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch and German descent, 4,000 "coloreds," and 11,000 blacks, most of them migrant workers from other parts of South West Africa...
Other issues also threatened the mood of solidarity. Some British delegates wanted to question the 1,000 Russians attending the festival about Soviet human rights infringements; rather than cause an embarrassing fuss, they refrained. West German delegates split on the issue of how to deal with East Germany's imprisonment of Author Rudolf Behro...
...Europeans are disputing U.S. dominance as never before. The challenger is the Airbus A300, made by a French-German consortium with a Spanish junior partner?and financed by all three governments. It is the world's first twin-engined wide-body jetliner, and it can carry up to 310 passengers for almost 50% less in operating costs per seat mile than the stretched version of the 727, which has similar capabilities. In a sense, the Airbus is the finest American plane that the Europeans could build; its highly efficient engines are produced by General Electric. The Airbus Industrie consortium...
...being a Pooh-Bah. Starting as "a coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...