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...stationmaster was so right. Last week, before a Bavarian judge, Oskar and his fireman admitted that before boarding D-961 they had each downed five pints of strong Austrian beer and three Stamperln of liqueur. When the judge asked how big a Stamperl is, Oskar sheepishly pulled a liqueur glass from his pocket. For their wild night, the injuries to eleven of the 720 passengers, and the damages to six railway cars, the judge gave Oskar 18 months in prison and his fireman a year...
...running around U.S. streets, such as West Germany's three-wheeled Heinkels and Messerschmitts, which needle through traffic like grown-up scooters, can be parked head-on to the curb in only a 5-ft.-wide space. One of the bestselling of the gnatty new bug cars is Bavarian Motor Works' pyramid-shaped Isetta 300 (price: $1,048 and up), which has moved into more than 2,500 American garages this year. The Isetta has two widely spaced front wheels and two narrowly spaced rear wheels, speeds up to 62 m.p.h. on a 13-h.p. motorcycle engine...
...radio, rushed to the scene, suspended the battalion and company commanders from duty, appointed a special commission to investigate the case. Then he went on to his wedding (but canceled the parade scheduled in his honor). Chancellor Adenauer expressed his condolences to the dead soldiers' families, and the Bavarian state assembly convened a special session to express its regrets...
...Hitler-built Haus der Kunst, while the old building, its true home, was only a dismal rendezvous for petty gangsters and furtive lovers. When plans got underway to clean up the ruin and replace it with a technical university, a groundswell of impassioned opposition pushed the local Bavarian government to rebuild the Alte Pinakothek...
...tireless energy and ability of the German people made this remarkable achievement, but its course was set by cigar-chomping Ludwig Erhard, 60. A Bavarian peasant's son, Erhard rose to power after World War II when the Allies, impressed by his lack of Nazi ties, made him Economic Administrator of the U.S. and British occupation zones. When Allied officers, not so ardent as he for Marktwirtschaft (free enterprise economy), refused to let him end rationing and price control, Erhard slipped into his office one Sunday morning and issued the decree. U.S. General Lucius Clay administered a solemn reproof...