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...habits?the Teutonic trio is now known as "the Berlin Wall" in the White House pressroom. One Administration official calls them "all the king's Krauts"; another speaks of "the throne nursers." Kissinger refers to the other two as "the Praetorian Guard," and Haldeman and Ehrlichman are widely called "Von Haldeman" and "Von Ehrlichman"?or simply "the Germans." The nicknames are used by officials inside the White House and out, sometimes in jest, sometimes in bitterness. While Attorney General John Mitchell is not technically part of the White House staff, he comes in for equal criticism because Nixon consults...
Their wedding a year ago in Hohenschwangau was played as a Bavarian fairy tale come true. Now it seems that Princess Anna-Maria Elizabeth, 25, prefers a local innkeeper to her husband, Prince Max Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis, 34. The prince, she said, "couldn't fulfill his marital duties." This was too much for Hohenschwangau's silent majority, who took to the streets with placards to register a vote of confidence in the prince's powers and to offer Maria a choice: love him or leave him. She left...
...never been popular. The pioneers of research into sexuality?Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Marie Slopes, Alfred Kinsey?were initially vilified. Bill Masters openly acknowledges his debt to these precursors, particularly to Kinsey, whose studies, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study...
...addicted to pineapples. He had to bribe a waiter to keep him from dumping the ananas ("the French sounds like a Biblical sin") onto the spaghetti. One of the finest comic moments offers a scenario for the antics of an anonymous conductor, with strong hints that it is "Von Mehta...
WHAT the people of the U.S. ought to have done may be debatable in many areas and in many details. What has been most conspicuously left undone involves health. As long ago as 1883, Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (who could hardly be called socialistic or radical) gave Imperial Germany the world's first Sickness Insurance Act, covering workers and their families. Similar benefits now protect the people of virtually every industrialized nation in the world. But not Americans. Only now are influential members of both parties in Congress giving serious consideration to proposals for blanketing the nation...