Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen months ago, when he moved in as president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 44, looked like a bright hope. A brilliant ex-civil servant who had held the top career post in the Dutch Foreign Office, he appeared to have both the drive and diplomacy to steer the world's fourth-largest international airline deftly through the financial perils of the jet age. Last week, with an abruptness that stunned the aviation industry, Van der Beugel (pronounced van dare Bur-gel) resigned his job and checked into...
...advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel at the sight of their new guardians sneaking a morning drink. In political terms, the resulting uproar often has an hysterical ring. Recently, during the scandal over Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9), Group 47 issued a statement declaring that "the stealing of military secrets is a patriotic duty...
...Maazel that high but his appreciation of himself is widely shared in Europe where, in the past few years, he has conducted more orchestras than most people could shake a stick at. He disap peared from American music in 1945 after six years as Little Lorin, the boy won der. Adolescence- its fuzzy cheeks and squeaky voice- had done him in -"I lost my market value as soon as I ceased to be a monstrosity." Sobering up in Pitts burgh, he studied hard, learned the vio lin, became a linguist and left for Europe -at 22. a forgotten celebrity...
...with absolute pitch and an IBM memory that swallows symphonic scores at a glance, Maazel conducts with clear, functional beauty, avoiding ostentation to such a degree that he occasionally loses the spirit of his work in his wish to perfect it. When a tenor faltered during Maazel's Der Rosenkavalier, the maestro coolly ignored him, pushing ahead with a relentless beat that humiliated the singer and ruined the song. But in the concert hall, his command of the orchestra is invariable, and his reading of the great scores is almost errorless...
...U.S.C., biggest private university in the West, is striving to change its Rose Bowl hue in favor of academic touchdowns. Un der way is a 25-year master plan priced at $106 million. The Ford money will help raise a new science building (particularly for physics), hire more faculty to help boost graduate-student enrollment. Said President Norman H. Top ping: "It will enable us to move forward much faster than we expected...