Word: wartburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without a penny and without a decent suit." Hegger should know-he was once a Roman Catholic priest himself. This week, Hegger will open Europe's first organized haven for ex-priests: a 17-room house in the village of Velp. near Arnhem. To be known as the Wartburg. in memory of the castle where Martin Luther found refuge after his condemnation by the Diet of Worms in 1521, Hegger's haven will provide temporary shelter for clerics who have turned in their Roman collars...
...efforts to emphasize heavy industry (East Germany is now the sixth largest industrial nation in the world), the regime has given short shrift to consumer goods. Buyers have to wait at least a year for delivery of refrigerators, up to two years for washing machines. Even the outrageously priced Wartburg car (selling in East Germany for $3,750, in West Germany for $1,250) has a waiting list six-months-to-a-year long. The bulk of new apartment houses built have no bathtubs in them...