Word: berchtesgaden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hrer into rapture. "What would my life be without all of you!" he once shouted at a meeting, like a rock star stirring up his fans. Indeed, without a crowd to please, he often sank into the kind of moody lassitude that sometimes plagues out-of-work actors. At Berchtesgaden, to the utter boredom of his staff, he would show favorite movies (among them Gone with the Wind) over and over again...
...part in the successful campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums in the southern Sierras. Bavarian officials have squelched a plan to open for skiing the 8,901-ft. Watzmann Mountain near Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountaintop retreat...
...second, the French have been winning by as much as three seconds-the equivalent of ten lengths in horse racing or 50 yds. in the mile run. In the first downhill race of the 14-week World Cup series, Henri Duvillard won by well over a second. At Berchtesgaden, Germany, Jean-Noel Augert swept the slalom by a margin of nearly 2½ sec. And in the giant slalom at Val-d'Isère France, Patrick Russel nipped Augert by six-tenths of a second while trouncing Italy's lone hope, Gustavo Thoeni, by more than...