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Sultry Susan Sontag, 34, is a lady literary light who turned on four years ago with a flood of essays-on Levi-Strauss and Camus, on blue movies and happenings. They showed a clear, candid mind, especially quick at spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed...
...customers are willing to wait eight weeks for delivery and pay up to $4,375 for the privilege of whizzing along no-speed-limit German autobahns at 100 m.p.h. and more. "BMW drivers drive like hell," says a company official. The drivers include Actor Peter Ustinov, Politicians Franz-Josef Strauss and Rainer Barzel, as well as the Swiss police. Above all, a widening circle of modern Germans on the go, professional men and young executives embrace it as the "Auto for Men," their symbol of class and style...
...Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...
Schroder for fingering him, when Schroder was Foreign Minister, as the man who ordered the arrest of an edi tor in the 1962 Der Spiegel scandal. The ambitious Strauss, who aims at the chancellorship for himself one day and sees Schroder as a rival, accused Schroder of misleading the German public with "lies and deliberate propaganda...
...along. In fact, the two are not at all compatible. The austere North German Defense Minister and the relaxed Swabian could hardly be more unlike in taste, temperament and several areas of policy. Schroder, the only unremitting Atlanticist in the coalition Cabinet, is resented by both Kiesinger and Strauss for emphasizing ties with Washington over those with Charles de Gaulle. But Kiesinger can hardly fire Schroder. He is the leader of the Protestant wing of the Christian Democratic Party, whose support the Catholic Chancellor needs, and was his party's choice for Chancellor after Kiesinger...