Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extricated Friends. The most notorious of this greedy breed is a musclebound ex-butcher nicknamed Der Dicke (Fat Boy). A former black marketeer with many contacts in East Berlin, he got into the tunnel business for almost altruistic reasons-he wanted to help East Berlin friends to escape. While making inquiries about tools and equipment, Der Dicke made the happy discovery that hundreds of West Berlin university students were eager to help him for nothing. On his very first try, he lined up three engineering students who also had friends wishing to escape to the West. Once they had broken...
After the East Berlin Vopos discovered the tunnel, Der Dicke started another, again using volunteers. He also lined up six aides, bright young opportunists who wanted to learn the business. Some acted as couriers, others looked for West Berliners who would pay to extricate friends and relatives from the East. Tunnel No. 2 ended tragically: as two couriers waited for expected customers at the eastern end, they were shot down by Vopos...
Hailed in the press as Karl der Grosse and Charles I, Emperor of Europe, President de Gaulle last week capped his historic, hugely successful state visit to West Germany with a momentous confession. Speaking for once as a citizen rather than as the voice of France, Charles de Gaulle revealed that he himself, through "the grandfather of my maternal grandfather," a barber-surgeon who served in Napoleon's army, has been one-sixteenth German all these years...
...Der Amerikaner. Along with Marzotto, many a European firm that is still family dominated has changed its ways to get ahead. Though his uncle founded the company, Frits Philips, president of The Netherlands' giant (1961 sales: $1.4 billion) Philips Lamp, is proud that members of his family now own less than 1% of the stock. "If the stockholders decide I am doing a bad job," says Philips, "I go." And in Germany, where hired managers have traditionally been regarded with distrust, Steel Scion Alfried Krupp has given unprecedented authority to his general manager, Berthold Beitz. Among old-line Krupp...
...from sketches to "raw scoring" to a final version, and, according to Ratz, he was at least two years away from a final version of the Tenth. "Even with his finished works, Mahler did retouching in the instrumentation after a few performances; you cannot say that Das Lied von der Erde and the Ninth have the same character they might have had if Mahler himself had lived to perform them." An even greater problem: not all Mahler experts agree that the composer had decided in what order he wanted the symphony's various movements arranged...