Word: bavaria
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...Bavaria," says Peter, "the king used to give 100 marks to a family that had seven boys born in a row. Also, the king would be godfather of the seventh boy. My mother had six sons, and when the seventh was coming, they thought it would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl. So papa said, 'Well mama, I guess we have to try again.'" Unfortunately, the second try resulted in a similar buildup, and a similar let down...
Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
...Government, they recon sidered the question of the press. The British kept their controls on. But the U.S. authorities dropped licensing and gave the Germans a virtually free press. Ugly Note. By this week, the number of newspapers in the U.S. zone had jumped from 57 to 198; in Bavaria alone, 77 new papers had rushed into print. The ugly note in the new dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher...
...There is not one Germany. There are three. One (Bavaria) is the Germany of beer, a second (Prussia) is the Germany of schnapps and the third (the Rhineland) is the Germany of wine. The only people sober enough to rule all three in a sane, sensible manner are those from the wine country...
Next morning, the Süddeutsche apologized for its stupidity in printing the letter, explained it had done it only to prove that the danger of anti-Semitism still was rife in Germany. Unappeased by the hapless apology, Bavaria's Jewish community proclaimed: "None of us wants to stay in this country . . . We have our own country...