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...hero was Electronics Expert Horst Schwirkmann, 36, who, as West Germany's leading fumigator of mechanical bugs, had for ten years been a roving sleuth seeking out such pests as illicit wiretaps on telephones of Bonn's missions behind the Iron Curtain. Schwirkmann's work load was understandably heavy in Moscow, where this year the U.S. embassy alone discovered 40 hidden Russian microphones. Schwirkmann ferreted out a covey of bugs in the West German embassy. He also designed the mission's bugproof "tank," a compartment big enough for a handful of embassy officials to sit down...
...Catherine Spaak, 19, is a lithe, wide-eyed, legal-age Lolita type who calls Belgium's Foreign Minister Oncle Paul Henri. She got her start at 15 in Carlo Ponti's The Adolescents, recently taught herself English to appear in The Empty Canvas with Horst Buchholz and Bette Davis. Catherine recently finished a remake of La Ronde in Paris, then circled back to Rome to start work on Three Nights of Love...
...years after his father was hanged in Israel for his role in the extermination of 6,000,000 Jews, Horst Adolf Eichmann, 23, a mechanic, hung a swastika flag in front of his Buenos Aires home and goose-stepped off to a nearby bar for a press conference. Announcing he had joined Argentina...
...Nazi National Socialist Party, he declared that the reason for his adopted country's troubles was "the Zionists, who through their trusts and monopolies are carrying out their program for world exploitation. My father fought those who are suffering from the international Zionist conspiracy." Added Horst: "On this anniversary, I want to remember that he did not die in vain...
Stretched too far to be believable, Canvas is the kind of overdrawn foolishness that frequently proves diverting. Its existential blend of sex, symbolism and comedy reaches a bizarre climax when Horst takes Catherine to a party at his mother's villa. In his mother's bedroom, crowning a marriage proposal to the girl whose favors can be had for the price of an espresso, he generously covers her nude body with some of Mama's 10,000-lire banknotes. The door opens. In sails Bette, rococo-eyed, jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling...