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West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been particularly irritated by Gerald Ford's somewhat ridiculous ban of the word détente - a policy that is identified with Schmidt's Social Democrats and widely questioned by his Christian Democratic opposition. He must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages...
...brief but telling European family spat. Asked on television recently about the Communist electoral threat in Italy, West Germany's blunt Chancellor Helmut Schmidt suggested that Communist parties are really a problem only in countries where there is "reactionary clinging to old forms and old attitudes"-citing, among other examples, France. Then, in a published interview which appeared last week, Schmidt added that he did not want Communists coming to power in places like Italy and France, but if they did get government roles, it would not necessarily be a catastrophe. That was more than an irritated Paris could...
...Tour. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who is scheduled to begin a six-day U.S. tour next week, surely did not care to be reminded of the growing strength of the French left, and Schmidt's remark about "old forms and old attitudes" could hardly have pleased him. When he took over the Elysee Palace almost exactly two years ago, Giscard hoped to bring about in his seven-year term a smooth transition from the encrusted look that French politics had assumed after 16 years of Gaullist domination...
Last week The Fantasticks, a winsome fantasy by Tom Jones with music by Harvey Schmidt, celebrated its 16th birthday with the usual flurry of statistics: 6,668 performances have grossed $4.2 million, with a return of $1.5 million on a $16,500 investment. Meanwhile the 140 actors who have performed in the musical's eight roles have worn out some 420 costumes and 350 pairs of shoes. The Sullivan Street Playhouse, the show's home for all these years, has gone through two sets of seats and had to have the stage floor replaced three times...
...work last week, Chancellor Schmidt received TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan for an evening interview at his Bonn office in the old but elegant Palais Schaumburg on the Rhine. He alternately sniffed snuff and puffed menthol cigarettes as he talked about the political and economic prospects of Western Europe. Excerpts...