Word: bavaria
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...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Poisoned Atmosphere. Germans were furious. Calling the photos a "gross forgery," Bonn Press Chief Karl-Günther von Hase demanded that the French government take action against Paris Match. Prince Konstantin of Bavaria promised to bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken...
...morally right to assassinate Hitler, and had a share in planning an abortive 1943 plot against the Führer's life. That year, however, he was arrested; in 1945 he was tried for treason and hanged by the SS at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, a few days before the area was liberated by Allied troops. At his death...
...rented a live lion (the state symbol of Bavaria) to draw attention to its exhibit. B.M.W. got more attention than it bargained for when, in full view of TV cameras, the lion bit a pretty 23-year-old model on the leg -so severely that she had to undergo plastic surgery...
...returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...