It’s no wonder an anonymous German officer was driven to describe the Austrians as an unsuccessful attempt to make Germans out of Italians (yes, but they don’t have to endure the shame of our football hooligans) – if IBM selling its Telecom ’87 stand to a disco operator sounds unlikely (CI No 958), what about the tale doing the rounds about the AT&T stand? Seems the company spent a faintly ridiculous $4.5m on the thing, but was able to find another wearer of the lederhosen to pay to take it off its hands, and it is now said to be doing service as a provincial railway station somewhere in Austria.
