Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Useful Pollution. Some recent aquaculture projects actually make use of pollution. In southern Germany near Munich, the Bavarian Hydropower Co. is already reaping a profit by using sewage (rich in minerals) as a fertilizer in carp ponds. The idea is not entirely new; natives of West Java have long known that carp raised in streams filled with wastes grow unusually robust. There is only one caveat: the fish must be well cooked before they are eaten...
...olden days, after the end of World War II, there dwelt in the Bavarian Alps a countess of extreme pique and doleful countenance (Angela Lansbury). Or so the celluloid scribes of Something for Everyone inform us. Looming up in the mists was her former abode, a massive castle that would have excited the imagination of a Winston cigarette ad campaigner. The countess's present quarters were on the castle grounds in a palatial lean-to that the countess shared with her gay son and a daughter who had once been voted the Ugliest Duckling beyond the Valley...
Their wedding a year ago in Hohenschwangau was played as a Bavarian fairy tale come true. Now it seems that Princess Anna-Maria Elizabeth, 25, prefers a local innkeeper to her husband, Prince Max Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis, 34. The prince, she said, "couldn't fulfill his marital duties." This was too much for Hohenschwangau's silent majority, who took to the streets with placards to register a vote of confidence in the prince's powers and to offer Maria a choice: love him or leave him. She left...
...only a folk festival. The actors beneath their specially grown beards and long hair, are simple Bavarian villagers. The script is amateurishly florid. Yet the once-a-decade production of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, has long been a byword for Roman Catholic piety−and a major international tourist attraction. Ticket demands for this season's 98 performances exceed the supply by about 1,000,000. The 500,-000 or so visitors who will throng the area are expected to spend more than $10 million−enough to keep Oberammergau going through the next nine lean years...
Hitler's birthplace, a two-story stucco house at Vorstadt 219 in the Austrian border town of Braunau am Inn, is no longer marked as a shrine; only informed visitors can pick it out. His Alpine retreat at Obersalzberg, which survived the war, was dynamited by the Bavarian government. The remains of the dynamited Führerbunker, a concrete redoubt and command post beneath the Reich Chancellery, are now a grassy mound, situated fittingly enough in the narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets...