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...behavior to the inconsolable loss of three sons and the assassinated Abe. Just as the artless conviction of her account is taking hold, a spasm of madness shatters her face in fragments as if an earthquake had jaggedly ripped open the mind's thin crust. As Lincoln, Fritz Weaver brings timely eloquence to a pithy debate on civil rights...
Chemists located the treasure long ago, and the knowledge that many valuable elements, including gold, are found in sea water has nourished a long dream of riches. But try as they would, no seawater miners could recover precious metals in practical quantities. Germany's famed Chemist Fritz Haber spent years after World War I trying to extract gold from the ocean to pay off his country's war reparations. He failed, and finally gave up the struggle. But in Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry) another German chemist tells how he took a long step toward success, using subtle modern...
...dessert time at the banquet marking Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's ceremonial visit to the Hanover Fair. Suddenly a Nachtisch of grim-faced police appeared. To the astonishment of the crowd, they arrested and marched away Fritz-Aurel Goergen, the president of the vast Henschel Works, whose $125 million in annual sales cover locomotives, trucks and heavy machinery. Before the week was out, two other Henschel executives had been arrested, and four had had their homes and offices searched. Germany was faced with what may be its biggest postwar business scandal, which quickly began making bold headlines and even bolder...
Loss of Honor. Working twelve-hour days, short, blunt-mannered Fritz-Aurel rebuilt the giant, expanded into industrial machinery and helicopters, sold 44% of his stock to such U.S. investors as Morgan Guaranty Trust and Yale University when German bankers refused to finance further expansion. Goergen lived like the entrepreneur he was. His suburban Düsseldorf villa, ransacked by police for evidence, is filled with rich rugs, works of art and salons the size of tennis courts...
...East Germany, the Artists' Association Congress broke up in disagreement over "problems of reshaping life in our society." The dissidents were led by Sculptor Fritz Cremer, a longtime Communist, who called for greater artistic freedom in choosing form and content, and aired the heretical notion that doubt is a positive element in artistic thinking. Party bosses immediately accused Cremer of "negating the unity of politics, economics and culture...