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Died. Hans Knappertsbusch, 77, German conductor in the grand tradition of the late 19th century romantics, who through the 1920s and '30s took brilliant charge of, first, the Munich Bavarian State Opera, then the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic until the Nazis forced him into virtual retirement from 1938 to '45, after which he came back to crown his career at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival with a daringly modernized performance of Parsifal that sparked a Wagnerian revival throughout Europe; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...pros blow off steam. Postponing decisions until the week before the Bundestag convened on Oct. 20 to re-elect him Chancellor, he took off for a holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany's best friend is the U.S. (Strauss is inclined to think...
What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers. What few will accept is the mawkishly pro-Semitic suspense novel in which Meyer Levin (Compulsion; The Fanatic) fiddles with these familiar themes...
...Monks & Mothers. The many camera-toting tourists who joined the lederhosen-and dirndl-clad Bavarians were welcomed by the Löwenbräu representatives with more than the usual enthusiasm. Reason: 582-year-old Löwenbräu, the largest Bavarian brewery, is pressing exports harder than ever. Its domestic sales are concentrated in Bavaria (well-entrenched regional breweries dominate elsewhere in Germany) and Bavarian consumption is flattening out despite the low cost of a pint bottle of beer (13?). Löwenbräu's rising exports to 100 nations now account...
...wenbräu is also a Munich Coca-Cola bottler. But beer remains by far the company's biggest product-26 million gallons this year. It comes in 16 varieties, from a 1.5% light beer for expectant mothers to a heady 6% brew so nourishing that Bavarian monks in the past drank it to supplement their meager diets during Lenten fasts. The company emphasizes beer's importance by giving each adult worker 68 free bottles weekly. Like his employees, duel-scarred General Director Bernhard Bergdolt, 56, every morning has a 9:30 a.m. "second breakfast" of bread, sausage...