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...Wolf Von Eckardt, architectural critic for the Washington Post, complained that the extension would completely obliterate the soaring vision of the great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without extension-in far older monuments such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Despite such criticism, Congress appears taken with Stewart's idea, shortly before adjournment voted him $330,000 for detailed plans and a scale model of the "new" Capitol...
...well suited for, being apolitical by nature, bashful about handshakes, and gifted with a meandering professorial style useful mainly for drowning out hecklers. In the Wilhelms-haven suburb of Jever, Erhard rambled happily on through his speech, altogether forgetting to mention the local candidate, State Secretary Felix von Eckardt, until-as he turned to go-Von Eckardt plucked him by the sleeve. "Oh," said Erhard, sheepishly returning to the mike. "There is always something one forgets." The crowd loved...
...Possibly because everyone remembered the classic incident in 1956 when Von Eckardt, then Konrad Adenauer's press chief, listened while der Alte chatted contemptuously about Erhard in a radio studio, not knowing that a tape recorder was running...
...individual essays fall a little short of the magazine's standard of wit, pungency, and elegance. But several are valuable and most are interesting. Wolf Von Eckardt discusses suburban planning with a rare sense of political reality and social morality, dragging a crucial topic out of the sheltered enclaves of the architecture schools. In attacking institutionalized art and "Lincoln Center Culture" Robert Brustein covers familiar ground, but his courage and anger make the article both pointed and lively...
Doing his best to keep a stiff upper lip, Press Chief Felix von Eckardt reassuringly announced that Adenauer himself would probably agree to testify on the matter-provided his Cabinet gave its consent. In case the Cabinet didn't, Adenauer's Socialist opponents were preparing a batch of questions to throw at der Alte in the Bundestag. Among them: Was it true that Adenauer's daughter, Frau Lotte Multhaupt, had also enjoyed the use of a "borrowed...