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...entire $3,000 repast came from a Munich delicatessen, but hardly the kind where Americans pick up a six-pack or a pound of pastrami after the A & P has closed. Munich's 250-year-old Alois Dallmayr's is a Delikatessen in the original German sense of the word. Its sales of delicacies zu essen are soaring, as are those of practically every other fancy-food store in West Germany, on the strength of the latest craze to sweep the country: the Edelfresswelle, or exotic-food-devouring wave...
...grooming no genuine Hitler youth would approve of. For another, a girl wore a Nazi party arm band, a decoration never permitted the weaker sex. And there was a package of French cigarettes on the table. Whoever heard of a Nazi indulging a decadent French taste? Sensing a phony, Munich reporters soon smoked...
Died. Jean Arp, 78, a leader in abstract art, best known for his egg-smooth sculptures; of a heart attack; in Basel, Switzerland. Born in French-German Alsace, Arp was nourished in both countries-in Munich in 1912 he studied under Kandinsky; in Paris he worked with his friends Picasso and Modigliani. More for fun than anything else, he was a founding father of Dada, the 1916-22 Bronx cheer that razzed tradition and called it art; yet his own, very personal statements were serenely curved marbles and bronzes...
...Class of '41 arrived, this self-preoccupation faded, and in the four years between freshman registration in '37 and commencement in '41, the University's interest shifted toward the world and the growing war. A year after registration the Munich conference convened; and a year later World War Ii began...
...Rusk fails to observe the fact that Khrushchev, in a thermonuclear age, was operating under different conditions than Hitler. Had Chamberlain opposed Hitler at Munich, there very likely would have been war just the same. There may be important lessons to be learned from Munich, but Rusk's superficial analysis does not supply them...