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Today only three of Spandau's original postwar prisoners remain: Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, 59; Armaments Minister Albert Speer, 61; and that most mysterious of Hitler's odd coterie, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 72. To keep this trio confined, Russia, France, Britain and the U.S still maintain a special four-power commission, and on a monthly rotation send 79 civilians, officers and men to run Spandau...
...annual cost of operating the six-acre complex is $106,750-a tab that is picked up by the Bonn government as war reparations. That is a high price per man to pay for incarceration, but at midnight, Sept. 30, the cost will rise even higher when Speer and Von Schirach are released after completing their 20-year sentences. Only Lifer Hess will remain in the costly keep...
Thinking is about all that Hess does these days. Unlike Speer and Von Schirach, who busied themselves in the Spandau garden and read voluminously (Speer raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
...occasion seemed to be all Tanya's when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour...
Married. Katharine Bancroft Schlesinger, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a VISTA volunteer doing domestic Peace Corps chores in Kentucky; and Gibbs Von Kinderman, 23, Harvard '64, performing similar tasks in Tennessee for the Appalachian Volunteers; in Lincoln, Mass...