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...1880s, in the back room of their neighborhood meat market on Chicago's North Side, the Bavarian Mayer brothers-Oscar, Gottfried and Max-worked hard stuffing sausages. Oscar's wife Louise helped, and their son Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...
Instead, Gehlen fled with the retreating Wehrmacht into the Bavarian Alps, where he cached away 50 steel cases of intelligence data on the Red Army. Reckoning that the wartime alliance of the U.S. and Soviets would soon crum ble, he greeted the victorious invading Americans with a proposal: his secrets in return for U.S. financial backing. The U.S. accepted and installed Gehlen and his wartime staff in a heavily guarded compound near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some...
...Richard Wagner. His lifelong battles with critics, rival composers, performers and jealous husbands formed the sonorous core of his own career, and even blared into some of his opera plots. This summer, 84 years after Wagner's death, the storms still rage over the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, that Bavarian operatic Valhalla built by the composer to house definitive performances of his musico-dramatic masterworks...
Unlikely Friendship. How are the coalition partners getting along? So far, amazingly well. Burly Franz Josef Strauss, boss of the C.D.U.'s autonomous Bavarian branch, is working smoothly in his post as Economics Minister with Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who is a Socialist. Kiesinger has correct, if cool, relations with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who is both Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. As a whole, the eleven Christian Democrat ministers and nine Socialists have pretty well buried ideological differences in favor of a get-it-done approach...
...volume presentation of Greek and Latin works with the original text on the lefthand page and the translation on the right. Supported by a $300,000 endowment, it is the bequest of James C. Loeb '88, a bachelor banker who after his retirement in 1901 lived in a Bavarian castle surrounded by books...