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...nearly always incomplete, inaccurate and full of special pleading; even so, they have helped crystallize the fantasy that the desire for art can somehow be statistically measured. By far the quaintest manifestation of this to date has been a rating system cobbled together by a young financial tipster named Willi Bongard, which recently appeared in Capital (a monthly German management magazine) and was reported in the Wall Street Journal. His artcom-pass purports to grade the world's 100 greatest artists of the '60s and '70s on a scale of relative fame and thus "objectively" determine whether...
...regime's supporters number only in the hundreds of thousands-and these are its servants." When Willy Brandt visited East Germany in 1970 to meet with East German Premier Willi Stoph, he was, to the government's enormous chagrin, wildly cheered. He is undoubtedly the most popular man in East Germany today-possibly more popular than he is in his own country...
...Willy Brandt has had to break a campaign promise. Before his triumph at the polls last month, the West German Chancellor declared that he would personally travel to East Berlin before Christmas to sign the historic treaty that will establish normal relations between the two German states and in effect end the cold war in Germany (TIME, Nov. 20). Now Bonn has let it be known that when the treaty is signed on Dec. 21, the pens will be held not by Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph but by their state secretaries, Egon Bahr and Michael Kohl...
...human scale," and to build an "anti-monument sports complex" in a green setting with a "minimum of travel." Most important for a community that other Germans call "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Metropolis with a Heart) there must be a "touch of gaiety in the air." The goal, says Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more carefree Olympiad, free of both false pathos and the fanatical pursuit of medals." Daume and the Munich planners have not wholly succeeded?no one could?but they have come close enough by creating what amounts to a vast playground...
...following weeks the accolades came rolling in: a Coty fashion-award nomination, new accounts for Digits and praise from the trade press. Only a few years ago, probably none of it would have happened at all. Willi Smith is black, and until recently the fashion business has had little room for designers of his color...