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Also Bavarian, but of another breed, is West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 46, who has always seemed willing to trade Munich for Bonn - and who, in the view of his detractors, had his eye on the Palais Schaumburg, residence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Prospects Dim. Less than a year ago, Strauss's political road seemed clear. The aging Adenauer would soon quit; Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a proficient economist but an uncertain politi cian, would not last long as successor; the third Chancellor of the Federal Republic would be the man who had forged the Bundeswehr into NATO's most powerful, most willing European partner...
Last September Strauss's prospects lost their glow. Before the final returns were in for national elections, Strauss referred to Adenauer in the past tense, angled with the Chancellor's opponents to pres sure him from office. During a U.S. trip, he plumped to make NATO a "fourth nu clear power" (enabling West Germany to get atomic arms), despite Washington's objections. Adenauer, visiting President Kennedy at the time, said nary a word to support his Defense Minister...
...July 29: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event - BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Monteux - Beethoven: Symphomy No.2 - Purcell: Dido's Lament (Gray-Masse) - Weber: "Ocean Thou Mighty Monster" (Gray-Masse) - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben...
...Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus has maintained its position as the most popular despository of frothy melodies which Viennese operetta has given to the general body of Western culture. The romantic triangle of Rosalinda, her husband Eisenstein, and her lover Alfred needs only a good translation to be perfectly comprehensible and extraordinarily funny to an English-speaking audience. The translation used in the South Shore Music Circus production, which opened in Cohasset on Monday evening, lacks most of the virtues of the original German and makes many condescensions to popular taste...