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Died. Otto Strasser, 76, onetime intimate turned archenemy of Adolf Hitler; of a heart attack; in Munich. An early ally of the rising Führer, Strasser preached Nazism with a socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked...
...most obvious absentees are the Americans. "The free-spending Americans are gone," laments a Munich hotel manager. "All we get this year are the young backpackers, touring Europe on the cheap." Applications for U.S. passports this year have fallen by 15%. Ac cording to the latest figures, passenger travel across the North Atlantic on scheduled airlines is down by 4% and off by 27% on charter flights. One reason of course is that air fares have jumped by about one-third in the past year, largely because jet-fuel prices have climbed so high. Longer trips are especially forbidding; thus...
...report that he is better informed and more intelligent than his reputation suggests. His public image reflects the traditional sporting interests of a princeling. He is often photographed wearing his black karate belt or sailing his Dragon-class La Fortuna; he represented Spain in sailing competitions at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He also pilots a jet and a helicopter...
...their left arms for tickets to the World Cup soccer match, Kissinger came up with some choice seats without any strain. He ordered his jet to take a detour for one game, and was lifted by Luftwaffe helicopter to the playing field. When he got to his hotel in Munich for the finals, there was a call waiting for him from Elizabeth Taylor. "She wanted to get a briefing on the European Security Conference," he said, the old Kissinger grin growing wide above his chins...
...that even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive world of blue films and blue jeans, then-on the final whistle of the match they witnessed-knouted off again. Frankfurt airport, with team supporters looking for planes to Dortmund, Munich, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Hannover, was a Brechtian fantasy of chauvinistic headgear and rosettes. Among the major nations unrepresented in the jostle there seemed to be only the Americans, who have never taken to the game, and the English, who invented it, but whose team lost out in elimination matches...