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Show Einstvhis S mss iipiirtnit'tit Birthplace of relativity theory hv Gordon E. Kowlov The Kramgasse is one of BERNE. Switzerland the most colorful and crowded streets of this old Swiss city. Geraniums in window boxes splash fine 17th- - and buildings with reds, pinks d fountains of the and magenta. And Zahringer bear in a suit of armor, and Samson forcing open the jaws of a lion stand in the middle of the street but go almost unnoticed by the strollers and shoppers who crowd the covered arcades to either side. Something else scarcely noticed by those gazers at Swiss chocolate and coveters of Swiss watches is a modest sign on the building at number 49. It reads, in German: "In this house between 1903 and 1905 Albert Einstein completed work on the theory of relativity ." Its a long climb up the circular stairway to the massive wooden door of the apartment on the third floor. The door creaks as you enter and an the caretaker, toddles along the passage to greet you, his only visitor For a fraction of a second you might imagine that it's the old genius himself except that would be an anachronism. For when Einstein lived here he was not the bushy-haireprofessor in the rumpled sweater we know from photos taken in his Princeton study. HE WAS YOUNG, just 23; a bridegroom, recently married to Mileva Marie, a Serbian he had met while the young both were students in Zurich; and poor couple couldnt afford a honeymoon. After their simple wedding and a celebratory meal in a local 18th-centu- ry gaily-painte- elderly-gentlema- d OF UTAH Thermostatically Controlled Forced Outside Air Stoves & Fireplaces Munich and just before he left for Italy He had been born in the Bavarian city of I'lm on March 14. 1879 But when he was a year old his family moved to Munich, where his father and uncle established a small electrochemical plant By all accounts he was a poor student in subjects that required a good memory, such as languages, but he w as brilliant in far ahead of e en his teachers mathematics HE DISLIKED. HOWEVER. THE GROWING German militarism he saw all around him and the strict discipline that prevailed in German schools at the time. So it was with a sigh of relief he learned that, because his father's business was failing, his parents had decided to move to Milan. HE ENJOYED ITALY with its relaxed atmosphere and its cultured people, "the most civilized people I have ever met." he wrote later In Italy he decided to become a teacher of mathematics and physics. Not wishing to return to Germany tHe renounced his German citizenship when he became 16). he chose Switzerland in which to complete his formal education, first at the cantonal school in Aarau and later at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. In Aarau he fell in love with the Swiss countryside and the Swiss people, whom he admired for their serious responsibility and their devotion to neutrality. On another wall of the apartment and coming as Inserts LIFETIME GUARANTEE the most efficient wood & coal stoves & fireplaces on the market today 1 -t- Call Collect Richfield, Utah S9G-69G7 also available in Cedar City, Kanab. Richfield TRAVEL with Faldmo's f? 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It's a small apartment, only three rooms (The kiti hen and w.c., which are not open to visitors, were at the extreme back of the house and were shared with another family) but it has been carefully restored by the Albert Einstein Society to its turn appearance. The colors are muted, grays and beige, and although furniture has been kept to a minimum, the walls are hung with photos, drawings and other documents associated with the scientist. There is no printed guide to the house and all the photo captions and documents are in German, but a visitor with only a cursory knowledge of Einstein's lift can follow his career quite easily. IN THE FIRST ROOM, facing the marble mantelpiece, for instance, is a photo of Albert at 15. when he was a student at the Luitpold Gymnasium in absent-minded- Gordon E. 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He was sorely disappointed but held on to the service book for many years. UNABLE TO FIND A permanent teaching position after his graduation from the Polytechnic. Einstein applied for and got a minor job in the Swiss Patent Office in Beme The pay was low but it did enable him and Mileva to get married and to move into this apartment Einstein actually liked his work, which he called his "shoemaker's job" because it did not tax his mind and left him with enough energy to concentrate on his mathematical studies, work he considered his primary v R ation including one of Despite the family photos Albert. Mileva. and Hans Albert, their first child Column I See Page H-I- Salt Lake 12. 25-Ap- TEMPLE TOUR great lime to get away from the winter weather Virt St George. Mesa. Los Angeles and Oakland Temples Included are lots ot tun slops and interesting places including Palm Springs. Hears! Castle. 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