Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dancers from virtually every major opera house in Europe tripped into Stuttgart. They came not to dance but to huddle in the wings and watch the latest creations of Württemberg State Opera Ballet Director John Cranko, who has built a reputation among dancers and audiences alike as the most creative young choreographer in all of Europe. At the conclusion of last week's annual Ballet Festival, the burgeoning army of Crankophiles was more enthusiastic than ever...
Grabbing snacks in his Mercedes as he raced from smoky Stuttgart to the picturesque towns of the Swabian countryside, Socialist Leader Willy Brandt minimized partisan criticism, stressed ''common tasks of the future." Typical punch line: "For each rocket that is fired into space, there should be one against heart attacks...
...exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever been made...
...Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
...Stuttgart, West Germany, Army Private Freddie Lowe Johnson, 21, became the first member of the U.S. armed forces to be tried in a German court under the U.S.-German status-of-forces agreement that went into effect July 1. The crime: robbing a bank at gunpoint. The punishment: 3½ years in prison, which is a gentler sentence than he would probably have received if he were found guilty by a U.S. military court. Pentagon spokesmen testifying before a Senate subcommittee reported that U.S. servicemen tried in foreign courts tend to get mild sentences. Japan has even built a special...