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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...
...least 22 new orchestras have sprung up since last season. Among them: the Beaumont (Texas) Symphony (75 players), Savannah (Ga.) Symphony (68), Wartburg Community Symphony of Waverly, Iowa (65), La Porte (Ind.) Symphony (50), Ozarks-Clarksville Little Symphony of Clarksville...
...Eisenach, near Luther's old refuge in the castle of the Wartburg, the representatives of Germany's Protestants -seven-eighths Lutheran and the rest Calvinists of the Reformed faith-met to consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical...
...should hide for shame when they look at their virile contemporaries at Wartburg College in Iowa. Wartburg has 4.13 kids apiece, which the Bureau says is an all-time high...