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Beauty in Bavaria. One reason for the exodus, explains a German realty salesman, is that "Hitler and the war isolated us from the world." Says he: "Living abroad gives us a liberating feeling of belonging again." In fact, Germans abroad fraternize little with foreigners, prefer as a rule to segregate themselves in Teuton-villes that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis...
Atlantic College was born of a speech made in 1955 to NATO's Defense College in Paris. The speaker was Kurt Hahn. 76, who founded Bavaria's famed Salem School in 1920 and went on (after Hitler forced him out of Germany) to start Scotland's tough Gordonstoun, where Prince Charles goes. The speech gave British Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Darvall an idea: a chain of international schools based on Hahn principles. Sir Lawrence, then head of the Defense College, had often been impressed by the way NATO got men divided by language., history and prejudice...
With his chain growing at the rate of three new restaurants a month, Jahn has built three small factories to produce "Viennese interiors" and another to manufacture automatic spits. He also started a six-story chick hatchery in Bavaria. (But he still buys most of his birds from the U.S., which supplies Germany with $30 million worth of frozen chicken a year.) Jahn has opened Wienerwald restaurants in Belgium, Austria and The Netherlands, will soon branch into Switzerland...
...loved, at least he was needed. The autonomous Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. was split between a conservative Catholic wing and a liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...
Talisman was the only student recognized with a place in two fields, winning also second prize in photography for his picture of Lake Kimsee in Bavaria. David R. Underhill '63, took first with a color shot of a Mexican girl...