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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Singer Jimmy Dean hunts Alaska moose; Chicago White Soxers Gary Peters and Hoyt Wilhelm shoot pisingo (tree duck) in Colombia; Curt Gowdy and his sons fish for trout in Wyoming...
...Tempest. To keep in touch with distant friends, Mehta runs up telephone bills of $1,500 a month, thinks nothing of playing recordings by the great German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler over a transcontinental wire to Barenboim. Sleepless in New York City at 5 a.m. one day just before New Year's, he suddenly realized that in Vienna, where it was 11 a.m., the Vienna Philharmonic would be playing one of its traditional New Year's Johann Strauss concerts. He put in a call to the concert hall, had the manager hold the phone...
Bismarckicm Parallel. Between the time that news tickers carried the first word to Washington on Monday afternoon and the public confirmation on Wednesday evening, McNamara's reassignment had been inflated into a palace revolution comparable to Kaiser Wilhelm II's dismissal of Otto von Bismarck in 1890, partly because the Iron Chancellor had opposed his sovereign's militant foreign policy...
When Mayor Jack Shelley announced in September that he would not seek another four-year term, candidates popped up like mushrooms; 18 in all put up the unusually low $30 filing fee and ten-signature petition to qualify for the Nov. 7 race. Wilhelm Joerres, a sometime hairdresser and lifeguard, promised that if elected he would spend his first week in City Hall in the nude. Restaurateur Robert le Bugle campaigned as the candidate for "peace, love, happiness." Two candidates used nicknames in their listings on the official ballot for the powerful, $38,365-a-year office...
...absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion of Ulm's deputy director, Dr. Wilhelm Lehmbruck, "It is this remoteness, this kind of alienation, that makes him seem attractive today...