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Prospects Dim. Less than a year ago, Strauss's political road seemed clear. The aging Adenauer would soon quit; Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a proficient economist but an uncertain politi cian, would not last long as successor; the third Chancellor of the Federal Republic would be the man who had forged the Bundeswehr into NATO's most powerful, most willing European partner...
While her husband breasted the politi cal winds in Washington, Jacqueline Ken nedy, 31, deplaned hatless and coatless despite near-freezing cold at New York's La Guardia Airport, spent three gay days on the town. Usually accompanied by her sister, Princess Radziwill, wife of a Polish peer turned London businessman, Jackie looked more elegant each time she came through the revolving doors of the Carlyle Hotel. She supped with Art Dealer Harry Brooks, Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland and such socialite old friends as Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Her big evening was spent catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City...
...Stradivarius." In Italy alone there are some 120 liutai. amateur and pro, who turn out from three to six instruments a year and sell them for as much as $600 each.* Among the best known are the four Bisiach brothers of Milan and Flo ence, Rome's Politi family, Milan's Luigi Ornati and Ferdinando Garimberti...
Heads to Fall? "It has been established that all these doctor-assassins, these fiends in human shape . . . were hired for eign intelligence agents," said the communiqué. The plotters deliberately cut short the life of Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, the Kremlin's astute politi cal organizer of the Red army in World War II and one of the youngest (43) members of the Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances...
...Stuck to his self-imposed vow of silence on politi cal matters...