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...influence of the famous German design school, the Bauhaus, on the arts today is as apparent as the ubiquitous Volkswagen is on U.S. streets. Mushroom-topped lamps, svelte coffee pots, paintings of surreal geometries, and clean, functional buildings are associated with the Bauhaus attitude as readily as jimmies are with Boston ice cream cones. In its art work the Bauhaus mixes mysticism with the concrete. In its pedagogy it encourages imaginative thinking yet demands well-defined results. And from this composite house of arts-crafts-architecture, appeared distinct personalities like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy...
...than for their musical talents. Singing songs like the Temptations' I Wish It Would Rain and My Girl, or Smokey Robinson's Going to a Go-Go, they began making tours to Chicago, Arizona, New York and Boston. The family made most of these trips in their Volkswagen bus, with a second van for equipment. The kids just remember all the snow and all their weekends and school holidays being spent in motels and strange arenas. Says Marlon: "We would do a show somewhere Sunday night, we'd get home at 3 in the morning, then...
...remarkable new instrument is the result of an almost singlehanded campaign by the 60-year-old head of Bonn University's Institute of Radio Astronomy. Trying to restore some of Germany's prewar scientific luster, Professor Otto Hachenberg personally supervised the design, persuaded the Volkswagen foundation to pay most of the cost ($9 million), and nagged the builders to complete the complicated job from blueprints to operation in a short 3½ years...
...enough to read a newspaper or understand a movie. He watches his television set an average of 13 hours a week. He uses his neighbor's telephone, but expects to get his own within a year or so. He has a car-a modest economy Renault, Fiat or Volkswagen. He has a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, food blender and refrigerator, but no deepfreeze, air conditioner or dishwasher. He has a savings account, but hoards a bit of gold at home as a hedge against a sudden collapse of paper currency...
LEUT. WILLIAM CALLEY'S secretary, Mrs. Shirley Sewell, had just come back to his apartment with the 1971 tags for Calley's Volkswagen and motorboat. Calley had just got up from a nap when Captain Brooks Doyle Jr., his young deputy military counsel, walked through the door. "They've got a verdict, Rusty," Doyle said. Calley stopped in his tracks, his face a mask of fear, his right fist pounding into his left palm. "So they're finally ready," he mumbled, turning into the bedroom to don his Army greens. Half an hour later, Calley walked shakily before...