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...Among his chosen victims: Germany's Evangelical Church, which had arranged to hold their traditional annual Kirchentag this year in Berlin. Ulbricht's men denied transit for twelve special trains the church had chartered to bring delegates to West Berlin. A Communist official stopped East German Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, refused to let him proceed to Berlin. Church officials planned to hold part of the rally in East Berlin; Ulbricht vetoed...
...eminence this year under a new artistic director, Lord Harewood, 38, music-critic cousin of Queen Elizabeth. With John Osborne's Luther (see above), he will present the Bristol Old Vic's version of Lawrence Durrell's Sappho and Wolf (Expresso Bongo) Mankowitz' adaptation of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Frank V, described as the "musical history of a private bank." Then there is also the famed Edinburgh "Fringe"-small, independent productions that sprout by the dozen (about 60 last year), have no official connection with the festival, and often include some of the most original theater...
Some of the Harvard Faculty members who will participate in the conference are Oscar Handlin; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government; Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics: and Frank B. Freidel, professor of History...
...Villa Akhnaton, on Cairo's outskirts, newsmen found the host in a loquacious mood. Karl Henry von Wiegand had been a journalist before his guests were born, and he was eager to spin yarns out of his past. Inevitably, he remembered his 1914 interview with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...
Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry. With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward agreed to give up his positions as president, sole owner, chief engineer and designer of the firm he founded 33 years ago and built into the sixth-largest automaker in Germany. The Bremen city council will take over Borgward and its subsidiaries to try to save the 19,000 jobs...