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...curtain rose on a heath full of shaggy, diabolical hags hurling harsh-mouthed imprecations into the night. Their wild language was a witches' brew of medieval Bavarian dialect, laced with great lumps of Latin and Greek; in the background, no fewer than 20 different percussion instruments fired the cauldron with a tingling, thwunking cacophony. Anyone wandering into Stuttgart's Opera House last week would have quickly recognized, in both words and music, the style of Germany's most highly regarded living composer, Carl (Carmina Burana) Orff, 65. Less obviously, the dark, demonic and shatteringly effective scene...
Brown Study. At 45, Franz Josef Strauss is a brawny, brawling bull of a Bavarian who symbolizes the unsettling vitality of the new Germany. Rough, ruthless and flamboyant, he bowls over obstacles in his way like a Tiger tank smashing through a Pomeranian pine forest. He is youthful, energetic, smart, unpredictable, corrosively realistic. Strauss is dedicated to NATO. But he is also proud of Germany's new strength. He demands that Germany get the confidence that dedication and strength deserve. Says Strauss: "Either we are admitted as equal partners in NATO or we are not. You cannot have...
...Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he walks with the stiff, lurching gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, his head square and massive. But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem...
...Adenauer and Dr. Schumacher [then Socialist leader] talk behind barbed wire in the Urals about what they should have done in the spring of 1952," he cried. Der Alte was so moved that he strode down to wring Strauss's hand. After Strauss delivered a big Bavarian majority in the 1953 elections, Adenauer offered him the Ministry for Family and Youth Affairs. "Me, a bachelor, in charge of family affairs?" countered Strauss, who was leading a pretty gay life in the wine-houses of Bonn. He settled for Minister Without Portfolio, a likelier steppingstone to the defense ministry...
Interlocking System. In four years at the Defense Ministry, Franz Josef Strauss has organized the fastest-growing military force in Europe. From the foggy shorelines of Flensburg on the Baltic north to Mittenwald on the craggy shoulders of the Bavarian Alps, the old sounds can be heard throughout the day and much of the night, stirring nightmares of the past and mixed feelings about the future. The sounds are the bark of parade-ground sergeants, the whine of fighter planes, the far-trailing echo of strong young voices singing When the Soldiers March Through Town as a paratroop company swings...