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Skiers at Innsbruck and St. Anton tied their skis together with rubber binders that boosted Dr. Josef Klaus for Chancellor. In Vienna, shoppers were assaulted by Technicolored posters plumping for "Pittermann, Always a Democrat, Always for Austria!", and others found their mailboxes stuffed with pamphlets showing Dr. Bruno Pittermann fondling his black cat Petzi. Even the revelers at the huge Vienna Staatsoper Fasching ball could not escape a host of beaming candidates. Austria was in the midst of a bitterly contested election campaign...
...contest at all. Ever since World War II, the conservative People's Party and the Socialists, each with approximately half of the votes, have remained locked in a perpetual "Red-Black" coalition, reluctantly forced to get along with one another to keep the government going. Now, Conservative Chancellor Klaus is campaigning against his own Vice Chancellor, the Socialists' Pittermann, and much of the repressed criticism of the past is coming out in a way that would not have surprised Vienna's own Dr. Freud...
...Socialists now have 76 seats to the conservatives' 81), but in practice the People's Party is far more likely to benefit. Austrians are well aware of how much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news by Mund'funk (word of mouth) that the two Red parties are planning a putsch...
...miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...
Under Rhythm. In London, once a wasteland for modern dance, the company was held over for an unprecedented run of six weeks. Sweeping through Germany this month, they scored one resounding triumph after another, including an unheard-of 61 curtain calls in Hamburg. Wrote Die Welt's Klaus Geitel, "They are not stuck to the rhythm. They run under it, draw circles around it. They dance its impulses in the most manifold way and with a glorious freedom. It is a triumph of sweeping, violent beauty, a furious spectacle. The stage vibrates. One has never seen anything like...