Word: oberammergauers
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...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...
...Kissinger soon found himself an interrogator in counterintelligence. At one point, though only a sergeant, he was put in charge of administering a small German town, then a county with a population of 140,000. Later he was assigned to the faculty of an Army intelligence school in Oberammergau, teaching modern German history to officers ranking as high as lieutenant colonel. The disparity in military status became embarrassing. In 1946, he was made a civilian employee of the Army,'with a salary of $10,000 and a captain's rank in the Army Reserve. But by the next year...
Last week Wolfgang's version proved to be, as he admitted, a "look straight into the face of the past." Back again were the familiar Maypobs, lush backdrops and looming timbers. Once more, singers appeared in costumes that might have come from the Oberammergau Passion Play...
...travelers to another place-only to be confronted at meal's end by the irate owner of the scheduled restaurant, who demanded payment for the uneaten meal. In the red by $150 as a result, Krogager decided to recoup the next year by scheduling a trip to Oberammergau. When 450 tourists signed up, he decided that there was a future in the travel business...
...sent without trial, he joined the abortive 1943 Chechen revolt against Communist rule and later escaped into Germany. Since then, as a founding member of Munich's Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. and a professor of political science at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center at Oberammergau, he has been pounding away at Communism with archangelic zeal...