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MUNICH (through Aug. 5) is an opera-lover's paradise, with no fewer than 13 works by composers ranging from Mozart, Verdi and Wagner to Native Son Richard Strauss and a première by Czechoslovakia's Ján Cikker. For chamber music buffs there will be Liederabende by Baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey. Another series of chamber music by Bach, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and Scarlatti will be presented by small instrumental and vocal ensembles in the elegant 18th century Nymphenburg Palace (through July...
...would succeed Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Since Franco, "Caudillo of Spain by the grace of God," had pledged to restore a constitutional monarchy, the choice centered on the two surviving male members of Spain's long-deposed royal family. Would it be the Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 56, son of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, who dwells in self-imposed exile in Portugal? Or would it be his son, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 31, a sports-loving young man who has been educated in Spain...
...legality." The Prince meant he accepted the view that Franco was empowered under the present constitutional framework to restore whomever he wished to Spain's throne. Until then, the Prince had shared his father's belief that "dynastic legality" must be maintained and that the Borbón line must not be interrupted. Commenting on the likelihood of Juan Carlos' elevation this week, Monarchist Mariano Robles, a lawyer and opponent of the Franco regime, declared: "It is suicide for the monarchy. It is the beginning of the end. A dictator cannot name a King. A King must...
...calm those fears, the Administration last week issued what amounted to an official statement on the subject. In his first news conference since becoming the President's chief legal officer, Attorney General John N. Mitchell pointedly announced that the incidence of wiretapping by federal law enforcement agencies had gone down, not up, during the first six months of Republican rule. Mitchell refused to disclose any figures, but he indicated that the number was far lower than most people might think. "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity," he added, "has nothing...
Tsiolkovsky and Goddard are dead. Oberth, now 75 and living quietly near Nürnberg on a meager pension, has mixed feelings now that his lifelong dream is about to come true. "Sometimes I feel like an unmusical person who attends a concert and doesn't really understand what seems to excite everybody," he says. "On other occasions I feel like a mother goose who has hatched a brood and now, somewhat perplexed, watches the flock going off into the water. It is only very rarely that I have the satisfaction that everybody believes I ought to feel...