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...drag. López Mateos had no time for Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall, or the memorial to 18-year-old Peter Fechter, killed last year by Red Grepos. Instead, Mexico's leader zoomed off to lay a wreath on the statue of the German naturalist Baron Alexander von Humboldt-onetime resident of Mexico and safely dead since...
Kaye's best are still his standards, the git-gat-gittle song like Minnie the Moocher and Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune...
Married. Anita Ekberg, 31, Swedish smorgasbord in sexy Italian movies; and Friederick Von Nutter, 33. American bit actor; she for the second time, he for the first; in Viganello, Switzerland...
...Elector George August, who also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...
...ttingen bounced Poet Heinrich Heine, who thought more of the town's sausages than of the university's scholars, but welcomed Prince Otto von Bismarck, until debts drove him away. In 1787 it turned out Germany's first female Ph.D. -sloe-eyed Dorothea Schlozer, who at 17 overpowered her examiners while decked out in roses and white muslin. By drawing a variety of young Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Göttingen put a German academic stamp on many U.S. universities...