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Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss has never been quite frank about his plans for West Germany's defense contribution to NATO. His predecessor, Theodor Blank, promised to field twelve German divisions and 500,000 men by 1960, and commit all of them to NATO. But when Strauss took office last year, he began revising Blank's program and scaling down manpower targets. Last week, in an interview with the military analyst of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...
...after prospecting without success for buyers, the foundation announced that Etude would fold with its May-June issue. Highlights of Etude's coda: a cover portrait of Beethoven, an interview with Soprano Renata Tebaldi, a biographical sketch of Composer Igor Stravinsky, and a lengthy obituary on Master Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...Bonn, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who has pledged to field three of seven promised NATO divisions this summer, last week showed off the new German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...
...Died. Josef Casimir Hofmann, 81, Polish-born master pianist, who gave his first public performance at five, made his American debut at eleven in 1887 (he played brilliantly, but his So-concert tour was halted after 42 performances by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), later became one of the world's most highly praised and best-paid artists; in Los Angeles. A protégé of Composer Anton Rubinstein, he developed brilliant technique (though his hands were so stubby that he required a specially shortened keyboard), retired several years after his triumphant golden-jubilee concert...
...sensitive and charming, with more feeling than almost any other picture there." Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79, second-prize choice, demonstrated that a Mondrian disciple can stress the master's geometry out of plumb and still retain its purity. An even more austere geometric form, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square-"Yes" won third prize. Robert Gwathmey's The Clearing, a study in posterlike realism, looked downright old-fashioned by comparison...