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From Yugoslavia I flew to Stuttgart, Germany, to pick up a small Mercedes that I had ordered in Hollywood. The psychology professor that I mentioned having met in Hawaii a couple of years before had been at the conference and I persuaded him to come with me to get the car so we could have three or four days of driving around Austria which we did and had a fascinating time. He went home from Saltz- burg and I took off by myself to drive to Vienna. On the way I visited Berchtesgaden and Hitler's "Eagles nest" on the top of one of the mountains-a very beautiful place for a very ugly human being.

But from there I started out over the Gross Glockener pass, one of the highest and most difficult alpine passes and down to Zell Am Zee because there they have a gliding school. I got there too late on a rainy afternoon and so I had to stay at little "Zimmer und Fruestuck (room and breakfast) house nearby and slept over. Next morning I didn't have too much time and it was too early to get one of the tow planes going so I got an instructor to take me up in a German powered glider. It was fortunate that I had taken some power instruc- tion because I was able to fly it off the ground and then when we got up 3 or 4,000 feet the instructor (in German) told me to turn the switch and pull and turn a lever which feathered the prop and there we were gliding. That place has to be the most beautiful in the world for gliding as it is at the confluence of four typical alpine, glaciated valleys coming in from the four points of the compass. Absolutely breathtaking from the air. We took two flights and that was why I had hurried to complete my instruction and get my license before leaving the U.S. as I knew of this place and wanted to go there and fly.

After the flight I continued on my drive to Vienna. Staying each night in one of the bed and breakfast places, I got a chance to oil up my very inadequate German and the hausfrau was always interested in hearing about America. In due course I arrived in Vienna and found my hotel. Next day I drove the car across town to the Mercedes dealer and arranged to store it with him while I took my Middle East tour. The following day it was out to the airport to meet the tour group which was flying in from New York. I boarded the plane to discover that the group leader was the same Swiss man who had led the Central European tour two years before so we got along fine. As this

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