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...memory of the Nazi armies so fresh in the minds of many Europeans, this is no easy decision. Properly enough, the man who will argue Germany's case in Paris this week will be the man who has created West Germany's new army, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close...
Died. Upton Close (real name: Josef Washington Hall), 66, retired war correspondent, author and radio commentator, whose obsessive orientalism led to his dismissal from NBC in 1944 because he demanded that U.S. put Asia first on list of wartime targets (rather than Europe); in the collision of his auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. ("All this idealism is the bunk...
...assigned to the story, spent 14 days in Toronto and Boston interviewing the mercurial Loewe and getting back-ground information from others in the cast (plus a miserable cold, perhaps inherited from Star Richard Burton). Once, while Researcher Haber and Loewe were dining at Toronto's Franz Josef restaurant, the orchestra unwittingly struck up his On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady, and the obviously delighted composer swept the young reporter onto the dance floor. Joyce, who had by that time labored so long and late with Camelot that a chorus girl had mistaken...
...more than a jet's-breadth above the airliner. The Queen and Prince Philip were unaware of their close call, but not so one of the copilots, who later growled: "And they had damn great iron crosses beneath their wings." From West Germany's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss came "deep regrets," a promise to punish the culprits-"if, in fact, German aircraft were involved...