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Died. Wernher von Braun, 65, German-born impresario of the U.S. space program; of cancer; in Alexandria, Va. (see SCIENCE...
...first rocket-pressurized with a bicycle pump and launched from a local dump-failed to fly. Some of his later models flew only too well, taking off from sites in Germany and occupied Holland to impact on London with horrifying effect. But if Wernher von Braun, who died of cancer last week at 65, is remembered by future generations, it will probably be for his postwar achievements. As one of the most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching...
...Armand Braun of Ridgewood, N.J., compiled a respectable B-plus average in pre-med studies at New York University. But like tens of thousands of other young Americans each year, he was turned down by medical schools. Still determined to become a doctor, Braun did what an increasing number of rejectees do each year: he looked abroad. Yet instead of going to Italy, Mexico or Belgium (TIME, April 16, 1973), he joined the small but growing cadre of Americans who are seeking their M.D.s in Communist Rumania...
...long-time partners, Set Designers Helen Pond and Herbert Senn, have devised one of their loveliest productions-a succession of murals and drops, in blacks, golds and reds, patterned after the finely detailed Palekh lacquered boxes that were fashionable in Russia after the 1917 Revolution. The Canadian bass Victor Braun and the American coloratura Jeanette Scovotti, both of whom work primarily in Europe, made a valiant pair of lovers. John Moulson, a member of East Berlin's Komische Oper, sang the wizard with an uncommonly sweet and powerful tenor. From Pittsburgh Soprano Marianna Christos, in the minor role...
Opera Company of Boston, directed by Sarah Caldwell, holds the American stage premiere of Glinka's Russian Folk opera, "Russlan and Ludmilla." Sung in English and performed by Victor Braun, Giorgio Tozzi and Jeannette Scovotti. Orpheum Theatre, Boston. For info...