His latest book, The Arms of Krupp, promises more flak for Author William Manchester. Scheduled for publication on Nov. 25, the book has already been reviewed by West Germany's Der Spiegel, which calls it "un-factual," full of "goofs," and a "gross oversimplification" of the history of the steel and coal concern that manufactured German arms in both World Wars. Manchester, says Der Spiegel, is guilty of factual errors about present-day-Germany, half-truths about the Krupp empire, and "anti-German resentment." Manchester was calm, figuring all along that they wouldn't like the book in Germany.

It isn't that New York's Lincoln Cen ter is scrabbling frantically for funds, or faced with the gloomy prospect of closing its doors if more money is not forthcoming. Yet even with nearly $170 million in the kitty, the Center is still almost $6,000,000 short of what it needs to complete the remaining buildings on the 14-acre complex. "It is raising those last few millions that is the most difficult," says Board Chairman John D. Rockefeller III. But now to the financial rescue comes Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 78, co-founder of the Reader's Digest. Her $1,000,000 gift to the Center is the fourth such contribution she has made to worthy organizations and causes in recent years. It will be used for the Center's Juilliard library, which will house a collection of music; drama and dance reference materials.

Close relatives and friends dropped in, Wisconsin's Governor Warren P. Knowles sent greetings, and Wife Lynn

Fontanne's pet goose did not bite him. "I suppose he knew it was my birthday," said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know."

Some call her the Israeli Brigitte Bardot for the daring decolletage she sometimes sports in films. But when Actress Daliah Lavi, 25, arrived at Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival, she was dressed for another part: that of a gal who had just come from mod, mod London. "Fashion is crazy," said Daliah, who was wearing a jaunty black Homburg, calf-high boots and a sleeveless coat over a white shirt and a mini skirt. "I had to join in like this because when I walk down the street in Lon don without fashion, nobody notices me." Nonsense.

During last September's elections in South Viet Nam, Truong Dinh Dzu was a "peace candidate" for President, and he advocated a coalition government with the Communists. He came in second, after President Nguyen Van Thieu. Later he was arrested, charged with "actions which weakened the will of the people to fight against the Communists," and last month was sentenced to five years in prison. Last week Dzu's lovely daughter Monique Dinh Dzu, 22, a teaching aide at U.C.L.A., arrived in Chicago with an appeal for the Democratic Convention to condemn that ac tion. In a press conference at Senator Eugene McCarthy's headquarters, she presented a petition urging the Democrats to write a platform plank demanding her father's release. First signer: Senator McCarthy.

As soon as its plans were made public 31 years ago, the $6,750,000 Garden State Arts Center near New Bruns wick became the pride of New Jersey. Focal point of it all was a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater designed by Edward Durell .Stone, 66, and to everyone's embarrassment, the very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle the deluge. Water cascaded across the stage, splashed like a waterfall over the concrete wall that fronts the orchestra pit, then began to wash up the aisles into the amphitheater. Finally, the audience had to be sent home.

"What is Secretary of State Dean Rusk's idea of a vacation?" runs a current Washington gag. Answer: "He puts on a sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain in the National Parks System. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had a gall bladder operation earlier this month, is now recuperating at home, turning his convalescence "into a most enjoyable vacation."

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