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...treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will be ready...
...Army. Reckoning that the wartime alliance of the U.S. and Soviets would soon crum ble, he greeted the victorious invading Americans with a proposal: his secrets in return for U.S. financial backing. The U.S. accepted and installed Gehlen and his wartime staff in a heavily guarded compound near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government...
...said later. The following year he overrode tradition and his family's objections and starred his unknown find in The Flying Dutchman. Also, in a move that his grandfather would have understood perfectly, Wieland, then a married man of 41, moved Anja and himself into a Munich apartment...
Nowadays, her base of operations is the Munich Opera, where she will shortly begin rehearsals for the world premiere of Carl Orff's Prometheus. U.S. audiences, who know her so far only by reputation and a few recordings, will get to see and hear her for themselves, at the Chicago Lyric Opera this year and at the Metropolitan...
...between leftist and conservative students, both demanding different kinds of reforms but neither willing to compromise or join forces. In Berlin, demonstrating Free University students have clashed violently with police five times. At rallies, "Red Rudi" Dutschke reads telegrams of support from the Viet Cong. Rectors at Hamburg and Munich have been shouted down by students. "Our universities are dead," concedes one government education official. "We must start from zero...