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...Fortnight ago, Augstein's lawyer gave the judge who will hear the case in May a 73-page brief, accusing Strauss of all sorts of corruption, from lying in the Bundestag to consorting with "women of uncertain profession...
...turned out to be not so much a program as a pogrom. A skit depicting a priest lewdly opposing contraception so offended the nation's Catholics that the BBC was forced to apologize publicly. Fortnight ago, Panelist Bernard Levin called Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home "a cretin." When Guest Panelist and onetime Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Macleod rebuked him for such "crude, vulgar words of abuse," a grinning Levin agreed to change "cretin" to "imbecile...
...most fragile bit of china around Bonn recently has been the C.D.U.'s coalition with the Free Democrats, whose 67 votes provide the C.D.U. with its Bundestag majority over the Social Democrats. The alliance was cracked sadly a fortnight ago when Erhard and the C.D.U. insisted on extending the statute of limitations against Nazi war criminals. Tired of the Nazi trials, the F.D.P. opposed the new legislation on constitutional grounds, and F.D.P. Minister of Justice Ewald Bucher went so far as to resign his Cabinet post. To the Free Democrats' surprise, Erhard called the bluff, promptly replaced Bucher...
Instead, only 6½ years after fundraising began, the $12 million museum floats on the tar like a battleship on a 600-ft. by 250-ft. concrete raft. Scraps of canvas make the ship sail. A fortnight ago, the museum's chief art donor, California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, acquired Rembrandt's Titus (TIME, March 26) for a staggering $2,234,400. Eventually it will go to the new museum-the brightest star in a firmament of fine art valued at some $35 million...
Rembrandt is having a bully time of it these days. Fortnight ago at London's Christie's, his son, Titus, brought the second-largest price of any painting ever auctioned (only $64,000 less than the Metropolitan's $2,300,000 Aristotle). Last week, at the rival auction house of Sotheby & Co., his plump wife, Saskia as Minerva, brought $350,000, followed by a stunning study of an old man from the collection of U.S. Tin Plate Magnate William B. Leeds, which was knocked down for $392,000. Titus had given Christie's an alltime auction...