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Died. Teo Otto, 64, one of the world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...
Another charge made by Hochhuth is that through certain insinuative speeches, Churchill manipulated Hitler into initiating a few scattered bombing raids on British towns. Churchill thus could feel free to launch massive retaliatory fire-storm raids on the hapless civilians of Hamburg and Dresden. Since it was Hitler's Luftwaffe that began indiscriminate mass bombing in an attempt to break British morale, this charge is patently false. In the matter of General Sikorski's plane-crash death, no convincing proof is proffered that Churchill had a hand in it. It is a tenuous personal speculation indicative only...
Manager Rudolf Bing turned it down, even after Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus personally urged him to accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...
Dispersed & Dismayed. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger warned the students that violence would be met with counter-measures-and it was. In Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and other German cities where demonstrators tried to blockade the regional printing plants of Publisher Axel Springer, whose papers are critical of the student leftists, police asked them to disperse, then went to work on them with bruising water cannon and truncheons. The students were not used to seeing their own blood flow, and many, moreover, were deeply shocked by the death from rioter-thrown missiles of Associated Press Photographer Klaus Frings, 32, and Munich Student...
...search for Martin Luther King's killer spread in ever-widening circles. FBI and police investigators ran down leads in Memphis and Mexico, in Atlanta and Birmingham, in Dade County, Fla., Hamburg, Ark., and a dozen other localities...