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West Germany's Ostpolitik, carped Radio Moscow, "has become lost in a fog of uncertainty." As if to prove that he really is determined to establish better relations with his Communist neighbors to the east, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week dispatched his chief foreign policy adviser, Egon Bahr, on an urgent mission to Moscow. And what happened? Bahr's plane was fogbound at the Cologne/Bonn airport. After a short delay, however, Bahr finally arrived in Moscow and spent six hours conferring with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. There was no indication whether the talks, which resume...
...much longer appears to be the question-and the prognosis is dim. The British equivalent of France's Guide Michelin is an annual directory of hotels, inns, restaurants and pubs published for the past 13 years by Travel Critic Egon Ronay, a Hungarian-born ex-hotelier. In the 1970 edition of his Guide, Ronay calls hotel breakfasts, "with notable exceptions, one of the heavier crosses we bear on our inspections." More specifically, the guide's 16 food tasters and bed testers reported "disgusting coffee, cold toast, tinned juices, brought into one's room with the delicacy...
Monday, 10 p.m.: Johansen arrives in Manhattan, barely making a 6 p.m. flight from Madison. On the plane, he has made his first real study of the score. He has had plenty of experience. Trained in Berlin by Egon Petri, he played concerts in Europe for four years before moving to the U.S. in 1929. He has made five previous New York appearances, notably a 1966 performance of Busoni's challenging Piano Concerto. But now the magnitude of what he has undertaken overwhelms him. At a hotel, he recites "a prayer to Ludwig for help," and drops...
...return, he may receive up to $30,000 a year, plus a liberal expense account, an apartment, a chauffeur-driven car and the run of Vienna's famed Sacher Hotel-free room, meals and entertaining. With the job vacant since the death four months ago of Director Egon Hilbert, it might be thought that opera administrators and conductors the world over would be clamoring...
...accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...