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...citizen of Munich who found himself stranded outside Bavaria had until recently an easy cure for his Heimweh. All he had to do was pick up a telephone, dial 0811, and listen. Over the wire came a soft, feminine whisper: "München . . . München . . . München." The tape recording made strong men weep and buoyed up thousands of dispirited travelers, but finally the Munich telephone company had to discontinue the service. Homesick Münchners were tying up all the lines...
...residents of Munich, their city is not just Bavaria's capital and Germany's third largest city (after Berlin and Hamburg). It is Elysium on the Isar River - a steep-roofed, cobblestoned corner of heaven awash with foamy Doppelbier and festooned in Weisswurstle, the pale, succulent sausage that Münchners munch by the mile...
...Shot at the Good Life. Munich is easily the most exciting city in West Germany, largely because it is a young city. More than half of its 1,160,000 inhabitants are under 40, and 89% have yet to reach 65. Its lord mayor, 38-year-old Hans-Jochen Vogel, is West Germany's youngest civic leader, and Julius Cardinal Döpfner, at 50, is one of Roman Catholicism's leading liberals and youngest princes. Youth means vigor, and with an 8% annual economic-growth rate, Munich is the most vigorous city in the Bundesrepublik...
...Eminence Julius Cardinal Dopfner was the youngest bishop in Europe at the age of 35; ten years later, in 1958, he became the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. Today he governs the powerful See of Munich, and was one of four prelates chosen by Pope Paul VI as "moderators" to oversee the debates at the second session of the Vatican Council. Last week he made the most direct statement yet by any cardinal on the need for a genuine reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and defined that reformation-already begun, but as yet unfinished-as the true...
When Dopfner speaks, others listen, and 2,800 people-including priests, foreign diplomats and non-Catholic clergy-gathered in Munich's Congress Hall to hear him. It turned out to be, said one excited Lutheran churchman after ward, "the first time anyone so high up in the Catholic hierarchy has made a speech quite so daring...