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This month an estimated 500,000 tourists and sport lovers will descend upon Munich for the 20th Olympic Games. What they will find, reports TIME Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, is an overgrown village that likes to think of itself as Germany's secret capital, a city of museums (25) and music (three symphony orchestras, a 48-week opera season), with memories of Richard Strauss and Wagner, Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II-and Adolf Hitler. Vignettes from Birnbaum's recent visit there...
...Democratic Convention, 5,000 delegates and alternates will descend. That is only the beginning. Some 35,000 others will be there: Democratic politicians and their staffs and families and about 8,000 newsmen. With 29,000 hotel rooms, Miami Beach can accommodate those visitors readily enough. But for months yippies and others have been promising that thousands of demonstrators will be trooping across the causeways onto the island to make themselves heard. The ghost of Chicago hangs in the air like a dark presence, and many of the locals angrily protested accepting the conventions at all. Besides the incoming street...
...hard to translate into film. Actors, scenery and background music only dilute the intensity of Portnoy's brilliant lie-down comic routine on the psychoanalyst's couch. Roth's re-Joycing in the scenes of Portnoy's heroic masturbations lose their hilarious dimension and descend pathetically into the baggy-pants scatology of the oldtime burlesque skit...
They were legion. Many of the area's senior citizens seemed convinced that radical youths would descend upon their sunny fastness and murder them in their beds. Before the meeting, Oliver Bright, president of the Greater Miami Crime Commission, issued a somewhat shrill statement claiming that the area faces a grave "crime crisis" if Miami Beach is host to back-to-back national political conventions. The statement said in part: "The likelihood of 100,000 or more militants, demonstrators and hippies camping on the beach, in the parks and on the streets for six weeks could be disastrous...
...spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...