Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inciting the workers in "an old trade union tactic tied up with the current demand for higher wages." A leading Austrian author contends that the whole Habsburg fright reflects "the inferiority complex of republicans in a republic, an inner insecurity." After his trip, Otto, now 53 and living near Munich, said that he wished to establish a "precedent" for his right to travel in Austria. Wistfully, he added: "It was the journey of a man who loves his homeland although he does not know it." Did he plan to repeat the visit? Certainly, he replied. In fact, he planned...
Wherever they blow, the winds stir strange human actions. In Munich, as in Los Angeles, most residents are convinced that the foehn causes general lassitude, irrational behavior, suicides and an increase in crime. Israelis swear that headaches, asthma, high blood pressure, mental aberrations and other assorted ills are accentuated during the khamsin. In Sicily and some Arab nations, courts have considered the hot, dry winds as mitigating circumstances for those accused of crimes committed while they blow...
...South Viet Nam, that the budding spirit of cooperation among Asians must be nurtured, and that peace must be pursued. The important thing, he said, was not to mislead Hanoi as Hitler was misled before World War II. "I know that some people scoff at my use of Munich to illustrate this point," he said. "But you just can't laugh at the principle of it. We cannot let our indifference be their invitation...
...exempted on grounds that he is the sole financial support of his mother, Mrs. Anne Hamilton Spalding, who, after four divorces, lives in her son's $200,000 Beverly Hills house. The board has ordered him to report Nov. 7 for a physical exam and possible reclassification. In Munich, where he's filming Jack of Diamonds, George broke his usual silence about the matter: "I do feel that I have an obligation toward my country. If they want...
Died. Wieland Wagner, 49, grandson of Composer Richard and avantgarde opera designer; of sarcoidosis; in Munich. "I was born in a mausoleum," Wieland once said, referring to Bayreuth, where Grossvater Wagner had built his own shrine, and he lost not a moment in "clearing 80 years of Kitsch off the stage" when he was made co-director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings-animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets-replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama...