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Died. Teo Otto, 64, one of the world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...
Time and again, in response to such questions from defense attorneys, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Editor Warren Boroson, of the now defunct magazine Fact, replied with an unqualified no. Both men insisted that their 1964 article depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those...
WHAT ever happened to la grandeur? For ten years France appeared on the world scene like a golden phoenix miraculously resuscitated from the ashes of the Fourth Republic, the agony of the Algerian war, and the long shame of the Vichy collaboration with Hitler. The man who accomplished this miracle of recovery was Charles de Gaulle, who in 1958 took over a nation with a mere $19 million left in its treasury and even less moral credit around the world. He restored both the franc and France's prestige. He also restored French pride: even casual visitors in the years...
...treaty. Supporters of the bill claim that the new law would only make Germans the masters of their own house in times of national emergency. But students and other opponents insist that, despite many safeguards in the bill, the new law could lead to a repetition of 1933, when Hitler, invoking broad executive powers long since done away with, suspended the Weimar Constitution and made him self a dictator...
...still does. "I come from a family that has pride in family, pride in ancestors." He also felt that people in the street were thinking, "There goes that queer, there goes that homosexual, or there goes that man who is afraid of his masculinity." As to his attitude toward Hitler, his lawyer introduced letters written to his young children during World War II. Said one: Hitler "is a bad mistake God made once. He doesn't make many, but when He does, they are loo loos...