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Murphy has been on hand wherever and whenever the flames of world controversy burned hottest: in Munich during Hitler's brawling beer-hall days, in North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
...Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...
...drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon; others said it would be fatal cowardice...
Fast-Money Fans. Day and night fans churned through Stockholm's streets and stirred up their share of excitement. Arrogant West Germans flashed their money in local bistros, drank too much, drove their sleek Mercedes cars too fast, even earned a rebuke from one of their own papers, Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "We are scared of you ladies and gentlemen-even more in the case of victory than the case of defeat." To the paper's relief, Sweden beat the Germans...
This week 72-year-old Oskar Kokoschka, having outlived his tormentors, is giving Europe a mellow, retrospective look at 431 works, including many of his most famous portraits and landscapes, covering five decades of painting. Ironically, the show is in the squat, limestone House of Art in Munich that ex-Housepainter Hitler built to display a new Aryan art of beautiful supermen. In six weeks the show has drawn 45,000 visitors...