Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple of mugs of dark Bavarian beer...
...West Germany's Christian Democratic Union has been a party without a leader. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 67, the defeated Chancellor, went into a deep sulk and was eventually talked into stepping down as party chairman. Franz Josef Strauss, 56, the burly, ultraconservative leader of the C.D.U.'s Bavarian wing, maneuvered on the sidelines. Meanwhile, Rainer Barzel, 47, took on the burden of leading the C.D.U. in the Bundestag...
...made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar espionage organization, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). An obsessive antiCommunist, Gehlen helped plot some of the crucial undercover...
Married. Mama Cass Elliott, 27, brobdingnagian belter of pop-rock tunes; and Donald von Wiedenman, 27, writer-actor and heir to a Bavarian barony; she for the second time, he for the first; in West Hollywood...
...Kubelik's many Deutsche Grammophon recordings (notably Janacek and Mahler) show, he has brought the Bavarian orchestra to unprecedented polish by combining a Bohemian exuberance with the best kind of Germanic restraint and architectural proportion. Both should be most useful...