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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three thousand workers toiled three years to build Adolf Hitler's sumptuous Bavarian "Eagle's Nest" atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks...
...They found other caves and a 15-ft. underground torrent that rushed along to a tantalizing disappearance in a closed vault-the water level flush with the top of the vault's entrance. "With proper equipment," said Cosyns, "we may be able to go down . . . perhaps even one thousand meters." And the thought of exploring one kilometer below the earth was something to make any speleologist's eyes bug with anticipation...
...gallantry, and one of them, James Maclaine, the son of a Presbyterian minister, had such a fetching way with his women victims that when he was captured there was an informal day of mourning throughout the nation. "The first Sunday after his condemnation," wrote Horace Walpole, "three thousand people went to see him"-most of them women...
...experiments are related to a larger report presented this spring by Ernest E. Williams, instructor in Biology, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Cleveland. This work of Williams and his research associates like Van der Kloot was awarded the annual first prize of a thousand dollars...
However, not all Harvard men choose their cars exclusively with the desire for fresh air in mind. The popularity of hearses is perennial, and for good reason. Custom built on the best large-car chassis, a hearse rarely piles up more than fifty or sixty thousand miles on trips to the graveyard and back before the body style becomes outmoded, and since the re-sale market is not large, a hearse in excellent condition can usually be acquired rather cheaply...