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...with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march. After the West Germans, as host team, closed the parade, 3,200 Munich schoolchildren sang Sumer Is Icumen In, a far cry from the 1936 Horst Wessel Lied. The traditional doves were released, the Olympic flame was lit by a torch relayed from Olympia in Greece by 5,976 runners, and West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated proceedings with the regulatory 14-word statement: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad...
...first nude calendar designed for women was conceived by two California women, Freelance Photographer Judy Horst and Advertising Production Manager Christine Hopf. Impressed by the frenzied reaction to Actor Burt Reynolds' nude portrait in the April issue of Cosmopolitan, they formed Bo-Tree Productions (named for the tree under which Buddha sat when he received enlightenment), and with the help of friends began recruiting comely male sex objects...
German Journalist Horst Knaut estimates that at least 3,000,000 West Germans subscribe to some form of the occult, and perhaps 7,000,000 more "sympathize with the secret sciences." Staid Switzerland abounds with oddball sects, including one in which a supposedly "possessed" girl was tortured to death a few years ago. In Italy, it is not so much the quantity as the quality of occultism that has changed. Long a part of Italy's superstitious southern peasant culture, occultism has moved north to the industrialists, the doctors and lawyers of the affluent upper class...
When the news of Mangakis' departure broke, it was assumed that the regime had secretly negotiated with Bonn to let the famous prisoner go (Mangakis is a close friend of West German Federal Cabinet Minister Horst Ehmke). Such arrangements, at U.S., French or British instigation, had previously resulted in the release of Professor Andreas Papandreou, Composer Mikis Theodorakis and Lady Amalia Fleming...
There is considerable speculation that Ulbricht, who is still chairman of the Council of State, will step down from that post later this year. His most likely replacement would be Premier Willi Stoph, 56; Horst Sindermann, 55, is considered the probable successor to Stoph. Inasmuch as Honecker seems more inclined to adopt a collective leadership rather than Ulbricht's pattern of autocratic rule, experts foresee the emergence of a triumvirate composed of Honecker, Stoph and Sindermann...