Word: germane
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Eucharistic Congresses, the spectaculars of Roman Catholicism, have been held since 1881 in every corner of the earth (the last in Rio in 1955) to worship what German Theologian Theoderich Kampmann called "the still white majesty of the mystic bread" and thus to demonstrate Catholic internationalism and solidarity. Last week nearly half a million Catholics from all over the world met in Munich to celebrate the 37th World Eucharistic Congress. Among them: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who arrived by helicopter, plus 21 cardinals, 500 bishops and thousands of priests...
...Communist countries did their best to see that no Catholic from the Soviet bloc went to Munich; the East German government banned all travel to West Germany for the week of the congress. But a small group of East Germans managed to get there by crossing to the West zone before the ban went into effect. Many were disappointed that the Pope failed to attend. Travel-hungry Pope John was reported to have at last decided that such a precedent-breaking foreign excursion would inevitably bring demands for more papal visitations. One feature of the conference was the celebration...
...please its customers, the European Exchange System (2,918 branches), biggest of 14 PX districts, has built seven PX drive-in snack bars along West German Autobahnen with such names as Java Junction and Dine-A-Mite. Over the past ten years the European System has nearly doubled its stock of items, which now includes Italian fashions, men's custom-tailored suits, frozen pheasants and ten different brands of can openers. The PX system also includes barbershops, delicatessens, auto parts shops, dry cleaning and laundry service, and shoe, watch and radio repair shops...
...side of the bridge crouched seven German teen-agers with only two weeks of military training. On the other side was a combat patrol of battle-hardened G.I.s supported by three Sherman tanks, artillery and planes. The result? Two U.S. tanks destroyed, a scatter of U.S. dead in the street and, finally, a crestfallen U.S. withdrawal to allow planes and artillery to soften up the remaining schoolboy defenders...
...hero of Gregor's book is Ernst Scholten, a schoolboy who cares little about the war and less about politics. A passionate reader of Karl May's cowboy-and-Indian stories,* Scholten imagines himself as the dauntless Indian chief, Winnetou. Even though German adults - both soldiers and civilians-urge the uneasy boys to desert, they blindly follow Scholten's lead. "You can do as you please," he says. "I am staying. Winnetou will hold the fort." The boys' resolution is strengthened when a passing general cannot resist spouting nonsense: he urges them to defend the bridge...