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...retired time and again, but like Brünnhilde emerging from the fire, she kept making reappearances-a six-week charity tour of 25 concerts, an astonishing, exhausting month-long recording session in which she filled twelve albums with a full Wagnerian repertory. At 60, the heroic soprano range was still hers-not the top C, perhaps, but certainly the top A, clear, strong, unfailing...
...Percentage of eligible children attending primary schools. Br.: Formerly British-ruled. F.: Formerly French-ruled. Bel.: Formerly Belgian-ruled. **Estimated. † Percentage of registered voters participating at last national election...
...autostrada running west out of Milan, the first German brewery to be built in Italy is now under construction. When it goes into production next spring, the Prinzen Brau brewery will produce 1,350,000 gallons of heady, German-style beer a year. The man behind Prinzen Bräu: West Germany's Rudolph-August Oetker, 46, a publicity-shunning tycoon who has built an inherited baking powder business into a 100-company complex with interests ranging from shipping to insurance...
...beer has increased to 1½ gal. a year-not much, but enough to make a brewer's mouth water at the future prospects. To ensure a splashing welcome for his product, Oetker has prudently included a handful of leading Italian businessmen in his new venture. Prinzen Bräu's president is Dr. Giovanni Maria Vitelli, head of Turin's influential Chamber of Commerce, and among the members of the company's board is Count Piero Bonelli, a Fiat general director. The brewing will be done by German brewmasters, whose beer is more malty than...
...Prinzen Bräu will sell for the same price as Italian beer-16? per bottle-and should benefit from an intensive advertising campaign already undertaken by the Italian beer industry. Until recently, the industry's favorite slogan was "Drink beer and you will live to be 100." But that was dropped after not one of the 30 centenarians rounded up by the beer barons for a much ballyhooed Roman banquet would testify that it was beer that had done the trick. The industry's new slogan is a little more ageless: "Beer is good...