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...riding championship in 1971, appeared smitten with another dashing horseman, Richard Meade, who gallantly rose to Anne's defense last year when some blackguard suggested that her riding ability was overrated. Anne later cheered both Phillips and Meade as they won gold medals at the Olympic Games in Munich...
...Palestinian terrorism against both Arab and Jew over the past 25 years. Patience and hard work are required to solve the problems of the Mideast -- qualities which Israel, certain elements notwithstanding, has always been willing to provide. But in the face of continued Palestinian demonstrations of "good faith" like Munich, how can the Jews be anything but patient...
Whatever humor is present emerges not from the director's intended wit but from the viewer's incredulity that anyone would deliberately film something so ludicrous. A special idiocy derives from the disparity between the Alpine-Munich situations and the dubbed American English. Just imagine a German mountain guide in shorts and Tyrolean hat giving directions in flawless New Yorkese...
...humiliation was considerably soothed by his ascendancy to the directorship of England's Royal Opera at Covent Garden in 1961. Still something of a diamond in the rough, the Generalmusikdirektor of the Munich and Frankfurt operas had trouble adjusting to the British predilection for requesting rather than demanding. Recalls John Culshaw, producer of the Solti Ring cycle: "With such a bundle of energy who drives himself so hard, you either give him total loyalty or you can't stand him." Among those who could not stand him at first were the members of the chorus, outraged that...
...kick their habit, nothing seems to work. Between 1966 and 1970, 22 million American smokers made at least one serious but unsuccessful attempt to quit. In fact, more cigarettes are currently being sold in the U.S. than ever before. Now researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich have devised a new method for breaking the habit. It works so well, at least for Germans with systematic natures and a healthy respect for rules, that the Bonn Health Ministry is considering mass distribution of a booklet on the method...