Word: friedrich
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There is an extraordinary play, The Visit, at the Loeb now, and director Kenneth Tigar has turned it into an enchanting production. The Visit is not an easy play to produce because much of the life in Friedrich Durrenmatt's topsy-turvy world depends on the complexity of his characters. The actors, without exception, were equal to the complexity, and Tigar was more than equal to the task of interpretation...
...relaxed, personable sort who recalls, "A journalist once asked me why we didn't invite the press when we developed a new product. So I replied, 'Do you want to be invited every day?' " Pharmacy of the World. Since its founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer began setting up aniline plants from Albany, N.Y., to Moscow. Friedrich Bayer's successor, Chemist Carl Duisberg, transformed the company's dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
When German Industrialist Friedrich Flick reached his 80th birthday this month, he celebrated by donating more than a million dollars to charity and scientific research. Flick's generosity is one result of a remarkable accomplishment: the reconstruction of his personal fortune. Just 13 years after his release from Landsberg prison, where he served five years of a seven-year term for using Nazi slave labor in his factories, Flick once again heads Germany's biggest and most powerful industrial empire. He controls an interlocking maze of 156 companies in autos, steel, chemicals and paper whose annual sales total...
...judgment, started a court battle to change the way in which Flick had decided to dispense his wealth after his death. Beaten in court, Otto-Ernst no longer has any connection with his unforgiving father's industrial combine. His more obedient younger brother, Friedrich-Karl, 36, is now the heir apparent...