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...project's prize treasure is 400 boxes containing 1,000,000 quotations from ancient parchments, bequeathed to the monastery in 1927 by Father Josef Denk, curate of a sleepy parish near Munich, who had spent most of his life in the reading room of the Bavarian State Library. Beuron's whole task probably cannot be completed before 2050. So far the institute has published 26 installments, covering if volumes of Vetus Latina's 35 books. By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads...
Students will be permitted to study abroad only as members of a "regularly organized study group under the auspices of an American institution acceptable to the Administrative Board," according to stipulations of the original motion. This presently includes study at the Universities of Hamburg, Munich, Florence, Paris, and Madrid...
...Stuttgart, Germany, another young man named Sep Ruf went with his first employer to see two houses that Le Corbusier had designed. The employer declared them a "blasphemy"; the employee thought they were great. "We argued," says Ruf who is now president of Munich's Academy of Art, "in the long, open, austere living room, and my boss got so angry that he fired me on the spot...
...would urge that this is a serious and important debacle, possibly an irretrievable one, in American foreign and domestic politics It could turn out to be as much of a turning point as Munich...
...young Adolf had to quit college to get a job as a salesman. Like other middle-class youths with a grievance, Adolf Eichmann turned fascist. In Germany on business trips, he thrilled to the sight of brown-shirted Storm Troopers marching beneath swastika banners, and listened avidly to the Munich ravings of another product of Linz, Adolf Hitler. In 1932, when he was 26, Eichmann made the final step: he joined the Nazi Party, which was then illegal in Austria. It cost him his job, and one day the police knocked at his door. Adolf went out the back window...