Word: salzburger
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...Archbishop of Salzburg raised his golden crosier, traced a great cross, murmured a blessing, then turned to the crowd and said: "It is done." As applause spattered across the courtyard in front of the Renaissance-baroque Salzburg Cathedral, one sturdy little man who was watching broke into a smile. For Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 49, the dedication one day last week of the 6,600-Ib. bronze doors for the cathedral ceremoniously closed the book on three years of intense, painstaking work...
Phillips Brooks House, the United Fund, United Negro Service and Scholarship Fund, and UNESCO were voted preference. However, the group rejected an appeal, 8 to 5, for the Salzburg Seminar...
Those who were encamped at Eisenstadt were moved after a while to a pleasanter camp in Salzburg, where college students were given rooms in a separate, and fairly comfortable building. Other refugees, however, had the "depressing feeling that their whole future would be in a camp," Julius recounts. At Salzburg they were given showers and shaving lotion,--"a great thing; we felt like new-born babies...
Express train D-961 slid out of Salzburg at 9:53 p.m. bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing...
...steep inclines, around mountain curves at 75 m.p.h., D-961, spitting sparks and smoke from the wheels, zipped along until at last, 39 miles out of Salzburg, a 21-year-old diner steward took matters into his own hands, pulled the emergency brake. As the train screeched to a halt at Prien, Stationmaster Johann Birner, roused by frantic phone calls from down the line, said to Oskar: "LokomotivfÜhrer, I think you are drunk...