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...months a copy of Taro Leaf, the unit's weekly newspaper, had been neatly stamped, sealed and mailed off to the "Combined Allied Forces Information Center," c/o Post Office Box 14940 in Hong Kong. Since the newspaper was freely handed out in Army commissaries, and even Munich and Augsburg hotel lobbies, nobody at the 24th Division gave the matter a second thought. Neither did anyone at VII Corps headquarters, which happily accepted a similar subscription request for its newspaper, Jayhawk, from the official-sounding CAFIC...
...absorbing hobby became scientific research. The late Professor Erich von Hoist was experimenting with chickens at the Institute of Behavior Physiology near Munich, and he needed an associate who knew chickens intimately. Von Hoist was so impressed with the country doctor's chicken lore that he started him on an orgy of photography and tape recording...
...Munich's Eve bar, where the B-girls are affluent and fat businessmen roar like jungle cats, there is always something special for the sex-exotic eye. Maybe a dark-tressed Parisian stripper, full-bodied and beautiful, mounted on a prancing white horse. Or a trainer, three tigers and one notable nude, all together in a cage...
Argoud's terrorist career came to an abrupt end in February 1963 when he was kidnaped in a Munich hotel and deposited in a bloody bundle in the back of an abandoned panel truck in Paris. The French blandly disclaimed any participation in the snatch, and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville asserted that Bonn had never made formal application for Argoud's extradition...
...drug family got its name is also a fielder's choice. Some say that German Chemist Adolf Baeyer named barbiturates for St. Barbara, on whose day in 1862 he first extracted the drug in pure form. But medical historians think it was named for a waitress in Munich who contributed urine samples for the research. Others say it was a waitress named Barbara all right, and Baeyer got the samples easily because she was his mistress...