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...rare occasion when he can relax at home with his wife of 36 years, "Loki." Their modest residence, situated on the Rhine within sight of the I Chancellery, is furnished in modern-functional style and decorated with expressionist and impressionist paintings. Bookcases are filled with volumes on history and economics. Schmidt occasionally relaxes with a mystery story, preferably by Agatha Christie, plays Bach or Mozart on a large electric organ, or challenges his wife at chess and double solitaire. He hates to lose at chess, as well as politics; when he does, he is apt to rail...
...Carters' trip to Germany, Rosalynn delighted the burgomaster of Linz by grabbing his arms and rushing him into a polka-like Schunkeltanz in the street. She captivated Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's wife, Loki, who invited herself along on sightseeing tours in Bonn. But Mrs. Carter's ambitions and influence in more substantial areas remain difficult to assess. "Rosalynn is still uncertain what to do and how to do it," says Mary King, her friend and deputy director of ACTION. "She has not found the ideal mesh between her personality and her interests, and the institution...
...many prominent Germans, life resembled a state of siege. Parties, theater events and public appearances were canceled. President Walter Scheel dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
Mysteries and Science Fiction THE LONG TWILIGHT by Keith Laumer. 222 pages. Pufnam. $4.95. Sci-fi explanation of Thor, Odin, Loki and a few other figures from Norse mythology as the ageless earth agents of some intergalactic villains...
From Granville Hicks to Professor Latourette, from Littauer to Adams, from "The Fall of France" to "The Character of Loki," the billboards and lecture halls are jam-packed...