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...like Adenauer and Strauss, are firm advocates of a strong Atlantic alliance and argue that they are merely trying to strengthen it. Others are more concerned with German unity. They would reject nuclear armament and would make other concessions to Russia for the sake of reunification. Off on another tangent is brash Hans Kroll, West Germany's ambassador in Moscow, whose loud advocacy of rapprochement with Russia last fall earned him a personal dressing down from Adenauer himself. Last week Kroll was again ordered home by the angry Chancellor, following press reports that in private talks he had been...
...Reinhold Delzer, Bismarck, N. Dak., contractor, who rescued the 20-rank Wurlitzer from the demolished Radio City Theater in Minneapolis. Delzer has carved out a grotto for his prize beneath his home after getting special permission from a nonplussed Bismarck city commission to build organ chambers tangent to a city right...
...childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good enough to teach...
...backstage visitor, Actor Ralph Bellamy, starring on Broadway as the young F.D.R. in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word...
...more likely solution takes off at a tangent from sex. The obstacle, in this view, signifies adolescence. The spontaneous sex life of the rabbit embodies all that men (especially Americans) fear of this period. Hence the obstacle takes the form of a rabbit--a large rabbit. In support of this position it has been pointed out that one trait of American women is to keep small stuffed animals--tigers, dogs, and rabbits--long after they cease to be children. These stuffed animals, it is felt, represent efforts to avoid the adult role. To cling to these animals is to deny...