Word: rzburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anneliese Michel seemed to build her life around an old-fashioned kind of Roman Catholic devotion. In her dormitory room at West Germany's University of Würzburg, the pretty, pious young education student covered her walls with pictures of saints, kept a holy-water font near the door, regularly prayed the Rosary. Timid and intense, she seemed somehow afraid of life; even in her thesis, which she finished this spring, she focused on the phenomenon of fear. Then, one month later, Anneliese died at home in Klingenberg at the age of 23, wasted to skin and bones...
With her short hair, decisive manner, and well-pressed Army greens festooned with ribbons, Colonel Nancy Hopfenspirger, 43, is every inch an officer. As she strides across the U.S. Army base at Würzburg, West Germany, each day, G.I.s snap to attention and the local employees murmur a respectful "Guten Morgen...
...deputy commander of Würzburg and of various support units in an area covering nearly one-third of southern West Germany, Hopfenspirger is one of a growing number of women to step into important command assignments. Colonel Frances Weir, 47, issues orders to a mostly male outfit at the support battalion in Fort Jackson, S.C. Colonel Georgia Hill, 49, is head of the sprawling supply depot at Cameron Station...
...Wilhelm Schwenold, 46, bachelor pastor of a parish of 600 souls in Bernsbach, southwest of Nürnberg, who slipped out of town one night last fall and sent a letter of resignation to his bishop on Reformation Day. Next to go was the assistant pastor at Würzburg's Deutschhaus church, the Rev. Karl-Heinz Tillmann, 39, married and the father of three. But the final and most embarrassing blow came last month with the resignation of the Rev. Gerhard Betzner, the popular pastor of the church at Neuendettelsau, a stronghold of Bavarian Lutheranism...