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...teaching at Germany's famed Bauhaus. Only a few essential traces of serpentine exuberance remain in Stability. He had turned to the excessive discipline that he believed abstraction demanded. But the roots remain visible. Out of the icons of his native Russia and the glass paintings of Bavaria, Kandinsky had opened for himself a new perspective...
Protest Vote. The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats were spurred to find a quick solution to the governmental crisis by last week's state election results in Bavaria, where the newly emerging far-rightist National Democrats polled a surprising 7.4% of the votes, winning 15 seats in the state's 204-seat Landtag. Most experts felt that many of the votes had been cast in protest against what the far rightists called "the mess in Bonn." The results served notice on the Christian Democrats and the Socialists that they must either organize a strong new government...
...cries of neo-Nazism from abroad that greeted recent National Democratic victories and whirled around the head of Kurt Kiesinger, a onetime member of the Nazi Party. By seeing a Nazi rebirth in the victory of the National Democrats, foreign critics tended to overlook the fact that 92.6% of Bavaria's voters backed the dominant democratic parties-and that the party's vote was too small even to have won a single seat in Bavaria had it not been for Germany's use of proportional representation. The National Democrats have made their gains, such as they...
Though allowed to see his family, Hess adamantly refuses to do so. He does, however, write a permitted 1,300 words a month to his family. "It is beneath our dignity to meet," he explained by letter to Wife Ilse, 66, who runs a small Gasthaus in Bavaria's Allgäu Alps. Belatedly, Hess has become a freedom lover. "I would never again put a bird in a cage," he wrote to Ilse. "Only now do I fully understand why the Chinese and Japanese, when fate is especially kind to them, go to the market, buy a bird...
...reports reaching Chancellor Ludwig Erhard at his vacation bungalow on Bavaria's Tegernsee were deeply disturbing. First, the commanding general of the Luftwaffe resigned in a huff. Then, in rapid succession, came two more walkouts, including that of West Germany's highest-ranking officer...