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...stays raise questions about how effectively ceos can launch long-term plans for their companies' growth and development. But at least if they get lonely at the top, they probably won't be there for long. THE BOURSE More German Troubles Rescue talks to save Germany's bankrupt Babcock Borsig broke down. The 111-year-old engineering firm may now be broken...
When the two artists arrived at West Berlin's Borsig machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed...
Basic Grammar. Today the sculpture they welded at the Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team...
...failed to assimilate progressive Soviet science and technology." There are shortages of steel, coal, power, labor and transport, he told the Communist Party Central Committee, because "some people are still strongly influenced by religion, and believe that Socialism will come from Heaven. This is erroneous." From the sovietized Bergmann-Borsig engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland...
...Russians had exacted "reparations in kind" on a large scale. When the British occupied their area of Berlin, they found the immense plant of Rheinmetall-Borsig (25 blocks, 70,000 workers) stripped of heavy machinery that had produced gasoline and Tiger tanks. Of 2,500 machines, only 300 were left. Key equipment from textile mills, sugar refineries and other factories had also made the long trip to Russia. Said a German manager appointed by the Russians: "There is no question of our producing anything. Our productive capacity is absolutely...