Word: br
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the temperamental tradition of opera's prima donnas, Miss Nilsson did indeed walk out on the Met. She not only refused to sing as Brünnhilde in the 1970 premiere of the new Von Karajan production of Götterdämmerung, but also canceled her scheduled performances next season in Ariadne auf Naxos. Her reason: the Met was letting that nasty Von Karajan whittle down the number of her performances in order to introduce a younger Viennese protegee, Soprano Helga Dernesch, to New York audiences. "When the birds are not happy," throbbed Miss Nilsson...
...space probes to study such phenomena as alpha radiation and communications satellites to link Western Europe with other continents. Located in a spread of savanna and sandy coastland at Kourou, 26 miles north of the capital of Cayenne, the space center is tied to tracking or telemetry stations at Brétigny-sur-Orge in France, the Canary Islands, the Congo (Brazzaville), Upper Volta and South Africa. From its complex, six space probes have already been launched this year, and scientists and technicians are now working on the 18 more scheduled to follow...
...prose was deeply ingrained with the drab, isolated atmosphere of East Germany not long after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music with peers from Vladivostok to Valpara...
...lacks the elegance of the croissant, the sophistication of the English muffin, the intrigue of the bagel. But for millions of West Germans, the day begins with Brötchen, the hand-grenade-shaped breakfast roll with a shell so tough that it travels well in trouser pockets and can bear giant charges of Schmalz or butter and jam without buckling. Trouble is, the best Brötchen is freshly baked Brötchen, and that is denied West Germans through a quirk of law dating back to Hitler. To end night shifts for bakers, the Nazis in 1936 forbade...
...long night. To remedy the West's plight, and despite East and West Germans' conflicts over Berlin, Hannoverian Businessman Hans-Joachim Ermeler, 45, reached across the Iron Curtain and asked East Berlin's Trade Commission if it would be interested in shipping 60,000 fresh Brötchen over the border each morning. The East Germans were indeed: the deal will net the Communist regime some $250,000 a year in hard-currency marks. They have guaranteed piping-hot delivery in specially built thermos trucks and announced that the first batch of fresh Brötchen...