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...hope of somehow reversing Germany's military fortunes. On June 23, the Soviets launched a gigantic midsummer offensive across a 300-mile front east of Minsk and demolished 28 German divisions within a month. On July 20, Hitler's own Wehrmacht officers turned against him. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak...
Hitler's top generals urged him to pull back from Normandy and establish a new defensive line on the Seine. Hitler refused. He ordered Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, his commander in the west, to launch an immediate counterattack against the American breakthrough force. Into this he flung not only the battered remnants of the Seventh Army but also the Fifteenth Army, which had been at the Pas de Calais awaiting the invasion that never came. Their mission: to cut through American lines to the port of Avranches and isolate the twelve American divisions that Patton had led south...
With his announcement last month, Maazel, 54, became the latest in a long line of conductorial fugitives from Vienna's legendary operatic snake pit. Among the others: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom found the Viennese insatiable thirst for intrigue intolerable. But Maazel's departure also marks a new round in a process that seems to have become habitual among international maestros today: they trade top jobs and collect new ones like baseball cards...
...Von Bülow was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but has been free for the past two years on $1 million bail pending his appeal. The court threw out the conviction on a technicality: police did not have a proper search warrant when they examined a syringe that contained traces of insulin-evidence that helped convict Von Bülow-in a small black bag found in his closet. The case can be retried using legally obtained evidence, but Von Bülow's attorney, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he would seek to have...
...design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most important one is to develop an adequate design to express our contemporary life." -By Wolf Von Eckardt...