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Dead Universities. Academic inadequacies are also responsible in part for a series of student upheavals at German universities that are perhaps the most serious of all. There is widespread agreement that the country's once proud centers of learning are, for the most part, hopelessly moribund. Autocratic professors are still kings in their own classrooms, and students complain bitterly about the irrelevance of many lectures. A history student, for example, can study for five years without hearing a single lecture on the Third Reich. Undergraduates receive little or no personal guidance from undermanned faculties: the University of Hamburg...
Essential to Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...
...their Ph.D.s, students must master, among other things, five fields of religious study, including the Bible and the history of Christianity, the position of one major modern theologian or the entire body of one major writer's work, and one classic of criticism-plus two foreign languages, usually German and French. The most harrowing obstacle is an oral examination during which the candidate must defend a paper explaining his critical principles before a panel of twelve professors from both the divinity and English faculties...
...world's oldest existing automaker -Daimler cars first appeared in 1886 -Mercedes' preparations have been as solidly engineered as its cars. Going into 1967, the German industry was hit not only by the general business slump but also by a sharp change in the home market; as the once big postwar pool of first-time buyers emptied, automakers had to adjust to the slower pace of replacement sales. Going against the trend, Mercedes has aimed its 15 high-priced, high-performance models which hold 7% of the German market, at "men who have achieved something...
...Most German automakers have been speeding along in reverse this year. Turned back by the country's recession, auto sales have retreated 19% from last year's peak, and exports have skidded by 14%. Yet at the Stuttgart works of Daimler-Benz A.G., where 80,000 employees are rolling out more Mercedes than ever, the industry is on overtime and in overdrive...