European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crow fax rout i White line from Eibie to la Zug Tyllie i. 10-minute ride clips 43 minutes from travel Tim on old Colrain. Col rain still Makei 11-Mii, 7-Ilop run to top. By Bob Hoyer is Munich Bureau Man against Mountain in a never ending adventure. It u the climber clinging to a Ere vice of a Cliff the Hunter hobbling from one treacherous ledge to another. It is an old but Chen gang dry ten on that was monopolized by the Strong and the Brave. But the marvels of technology have Millered Tho plot. Today everyone climbs mountains especially in Europe. The pure of purpose still do u the hard Way with picks rope Send spiked shoes. But the great flock of humanity Bun turned to Cable cars and Ort Rains. Forbidding peaks once wrapped in my hand Mist and acco Helble Only to climbers have become Public observatories anchored with cocktail lounges and luxury restau rants one of the most impressive punks is  a prodigious fist of or 0y reckon the German austrian Border. Since world Wiir to this highest of Ger Man mountains literally hns become a playground in the Clouds. And commercial interests serving the Peak arc doing their utmost to keep the Boom in  intent addition to services in a new 2.&mlle Cable car lift running fro the Eib Sce. A deep glacial Lake to the sum Mit of the Zug Sultze. The now system is the longest an steepest Cable line in Europe. It carries 44 persons in each of two cars and negotiate the precipitous course Over a no Man s land of boulders and evergreens in 10minutes. The new line was constructed by the bavarian Zug Sultze railway to relieve traffic on Cost Rains which the railway has been operating since 1931. Railway officials decided to construct the cableway after a Survey indicated the line would be fouler and cheaper than proposed expansion of the co Gratl system. Cost of the cattle line including elaborate term mul at the Eidsee and the Zug Sultze. Was leu than $2 million by making the trip from the Eidsee to the Zug Spitze in 10 minutes the cableway has clipped 43 minutes from the previous travel time. Cag ruins run from tic l Absee Euti Ata ton to the scam Eft in i Haus. A of rom ski Lodge and restaurant in 50 minutes. It s another i arc Mai butt ride via a secondary Cable line from the Schne Efeim a hits to the Zui to Kilzi  to the Tif sve cub today is by autos a photos by Norman zen loft or on Cost Rains. Which run a regular 11-mile, seven Stop schedule from the Gar i sch terminal to the  setting of the line from us Valley terminus to the Peak often obscured by Clouds is a tribute to the men who constructed it. Their difficulties were numer Ous. Engineer had trouble finding a solid base on which to Anchor the lower Ter Minal. Consist Icelon materials for the sum Mit insinuation were hauled at night on the secondary Cable line. The line was occupied during the Day with passenger traffic. Draft plan All the problems. Just one Manas injured during the two years it took to Complete the line. The with Lenny is equipped with safety devices including electromagnetic controls designed to reveal Wear on cables. One of the safely devices wus accidentally actuated during a Demon stration run for government official months prior to the opening of the line on May 15. It resulted in a temporary Power failure which jammed on the emergency Brake of a far carrying 35officials toward the Summit. It took an hour to free the Brake and return the car to the Valley terminus.  one official said afterwards that incident proved one thing we know the Emer gency Brake  one of the big attractions of the bugs Pletze since world War ii has been la three Mali Square Snow bowl which forms Safe ski area for beginners and exports. A Germany s highest ski resort u is Apennine months o year. But skiing in not the Only attraction on the Peak. The Allm grandeur of four nations Germany Austria Switzerland an Italy is visible from the spacious lounge at the Summit terminal and the visitor May cogitate Over cocktails while drinking in the Distant sight. In route to this terminal the Cobl visitor climb utmost vertically along the Sujit a Fri of of the Zug Pletze in area once reserved for foxes snowbirds and Only the most intrepid climbers. Because of it proximity to the army suits eur Hoti 1 it s within walking distance the cult Navy in expected to be a Boon to Foft j Emlius. Hui Mujib off mls believe the time giving feature of the cableway will Upp til to the traveler who must budget Tia time. T and. View of Zugi Pitie station from approaching car. The stars and stripes 13