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...PERIOD in the arts has so mesmerized succeeding generations of artists, or so bewildered the public, as the years from 1882 to 1935 -- years of almost constant musical detonations. The main crisis was that the girdling shadow of the colossus Wagner had to be escaped. The entire community of Europe agonied in the punishing ascendency of the magnificent nineteenth century figures: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Metternich, Bismarck, Darwin. Music was caught in a vortex of gigantic, lavish attempts at the final romantic masterpiece. Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande...
Even as millions of Swift & Co. "Butterball" turkeys were being carved last week, the Chicago-based meat-packing colossus announced that it had little to be thankful for this year. In fiscal 1968, which ended in October, sales dropped 5% to $2.8 billion, and Swift suffered a $42 million overall loss...
...Ahmanson's financial colossus was his Beverly Hills-based Home Savings & Loaji Association, which, with assets of $2.5 billion, is nearly double the size of its nearest rival. Ahmanson built it from a single Los Angeles S & L he picked up in 1947 for the fire-sale price of $162,000. All told, the chain now serves some 775,000 depositors at 32 branches, takes in $1,000,000 a day in new deposits...
...near the southern tip of South Viet Nam to Route 9 south of the Demilitarized Zone." Earlier in the week, however, France's L'Humanité printed an interview with Giap in which he was hardly inclined to compromise. Giap described the U.S. as an "impotent colossus" that had come to Paris only...
Japan's two biggest steelmakers - Yawata Iron & Steel and Fuji Iron & Steel - are in the process of merging into a colossus that will produce some 22.3 million tons of steel a year and rank second in the world only to U.S. Steel (30.9 million tons). The automaking di vision of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is being combined with the truck-making Isuzu Motors to form Japan's third largest automaker, after Toyota Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. Other mergers are afoot in petrochemicals, electric equipment, heavy machinery, banking and shipbuilding...