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...footnote to "Autoeroticism" [July 22]: in 1963, during an Army hitch in Germany, I was taken to Josef Beinert for a job estimate on my car. Beinert, apparently part of a vanishing German remnant, eyed my features with suspicion. Taking my German friend aside, he said, "I guess we missed making soap out of him during the war." Two weeks later, he met his death as you describe...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the best foreign film of the year owes much of its impact to Josef Króner and Ida Kamińska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question-orrather, the Nazi question-in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
...trouble dates back to 1958, when former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, hoping to win a bigger voice for West Germany in NATO, picked the free world's hottest plane. In order to stretch the F-104's capabilities into those of a bomber, the Germans installed so much additional electronic gear that pilots called the plane "a flying physics laboratory...
...burly Frankfurt garage owner, had wheeled up to a curbside stand one hot summer evening for a glass of chilled Apfelsaft (apple juice). He left his newly acquired sweetheart at the roadside, but kept an admiring eye on her sleek curves while he sipped. Next to Wacker stood Josef Beinert, 35, a balding, bull-necked gas-station attendant, who soon made it clear that he had nothing but contempt for Wacker's beloved. Words led to shoves, shoves to disaster: Wacker whipped out a revolver and shot Beinert dead. "I love my Mercedes," explained Wacker in court. "I couldn...
...title role--where Shakespeare was not playing quite fair--Josef Sommer is too hollow and guttural; and he refers to Metellus Cimber as "Cimba" and turns "star" into "stah." Patrick Hines is a slimy Casca, who, when Antony comes to shake hands with the conspirators after the assassination, is still wary enough to extend his left hand and keep his dagger gripped in his right...