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Charles Bietry, a reporter for Agence France Presse, was the first to send out the correct, tragic news after talking with Georg Kronawitter, the mayor of Munich. A.F.P. moved that report at 9:13 p.m. New York time, allowing the New York Times to be accurate in its first edition (part of the first run of the Washington Post reported the hostages rescued; the Post had earlier arranged to get A.F.P. service, but the teleprinter did not arrive until the next morning). U.S. television networks do not subscribe to A.F.P. During the official press conference, which began at about...
Occasionally Goodman will admit the existence of a little ingenuity on the part of others. Bernstein? "He revived the Philharmonic. He created a new interest in music by his enthusiasm and energy and unique approach." Georg Solti? "Fantastic dynamics. I seldom go to concerts, but you could not pay me to stay away when Solti comes to New York with the Chicago Symphony." More often, Goodman is a flinty patriarch who seems to live by his own view that the conductor is seen, but the timpanist is heard. Mengelberg? "Very quirky and picky. He would rearrange the orchestra when...
...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...
Died. Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, Hungarian-born physicist and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on the human ear; of cancer; in Honolulu. Von Bekesy was a scientist employed by a Budapest telephone laboratory when he began his research into the physiological aspects of hearing during the '20s. Over the next four decades his equipment and techniques-he once glued tiny mirrors onto an eardrum to observe its response to varied sounds-helped in the diagnosis of hearing disorders...
Eventually, Lufthansa-or the West German government, which owns 74% of its stock-paid $5,000,000. "Had it been only the plane, I wouldn't have given a penny," said West German Transport Minister Georg Leber afterward. By paying the blackmail, though, Leber had established a rather ominous precedent...