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...should break out, NATO forces would deploy to defend Europe and the West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
...visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the family had settled, the late great Pianist Josef Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...HERMANN JOSEF ABS, director of the powerful Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt and a personal adviser to Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard (see cover), is generally recognized as one of the most influential spokesmen for the dynamic and prosperous German Federal Republic. In San Francisco, where he celebrated his 56th birthday last week during the I.I.D.C. conference, stocky Hermann Abs also emerged as an incisive spokesman for Western capitalism everywhere...
...wooden double doors of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty's Episcopal Palace are locked now, and shutters are drawn over the windows where candles flickered briefly last year, for the first time in years, on Allhallows' Eve. But from his refuge in the American legation, Mindszenty remains a symbol to the Hungarian people. The regime would be happy to have him leave the country...
...symbols that crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled the beginning...