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...past five years, while Brandt's reputation abroad remained untarnished, the radiance of his image has dimmed in West Germany. It faded even further last week with the announcement that Brandt, 65, and his Norwegian-born second wife, Rut, 58, were "taking legal steps to dissolve their marriage by mutual consent." Straitlaced Germans were saddened by the breakup of Brandt's 30-year marriage, but not terribly surprised. Rut had stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last...
Whatever the merits of this mindset, it is deeply disturbing to experts on Arabia−and to none more than Minos Zombanakis, a Crete-born and Harvard-educated banker who straddles two worlds. For over 20 years, Zombanakis, 52, has been advising Arabs and Iranians on how to deal with Western executives, and vice versa. He knows the Saudis about as well as any Westerner can. He ranges far from his elegant London offices, where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon...
...BORN. To Tricia Nixon Cox, 33, Richard Nixon's older daughter, and Edward...
...choreographer who sought to synthesize all fields of art on the ballet stage; after a brief illness; in Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best known to the general public for his film...
Seiji Ozawa dreams big. "I am Japanese," he says. "But I was born in China. Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...