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...want Jimmy Carter as U.S. President; in fact, he rooted openly for Gerald Ford during the American election campaign. But Schmidt's discomfort with Carter and his new diplomatic style only explains in part the suddenly acid relations between Bonn and Washington. Last week German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Georg Leber flew to Washington for several days of hard discussion on three policy disputes that divide the two allies. They returned to West Germany in a somewhat better mood than they had arrived in Washington with, but without having resolved the problems...
...smelters. But there are those who love it and want to share it. In May, the Local Residents' Organization (L.R.O.) of the much-maligned Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr region) will offer its first tourist "adventure" through West Germany's industrial heartland. The idea, says the L.R.O.'s Dietrich Springorum, is to shed the region's grimy stereotype and show "that it is not only fascinating but has its beauty spots...
Last week there were sure signs that the residents of Marin County were adjusting to the dry life. They cut their daily consumption of water from 15.6 million gallons a week to 10.4 million, well under the goal of 12 million set by water officials. Declared Dietrich Stroeh, manager of the Marin municipal water district: "The response is simply amazing. The more we save now, the more we bank for summer...
Died. Carl Zuckmayer, 80, German playwright and satirist who wrote the screenplay for The Blue Angel, the 1929 film that made Marlene Dietrich a star; in Visp, Switzerland. Son of a Rhenish cork manufacturer, Zuckmayer won a pocketful of medals in World War I, then turned to writing. His immensely popular comedy about Prussian militarism, The Captain of Koepenick (1931), in which a shoemaker is able to take command of a town simply because he dons an army captain's uniform, earned Nazi wrath. After fleeing Hitler in 1933, Zuckmayer eventually settled on a farm in Vermont and wrote...
...works? Like Michael O'Hara, the sentimental drifter in Lady Shanghai, did he decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches the fat, fraudulent and exposed cop, Harry Quinlan, sink beneath the river garbage in the closing shots of Touch of Evil? ("He was a real man," Dietrich mutters. "What can you say about people...