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...program were forgotten. Out came plans to tweak Bonn's nose by accepting the long-standing East German wish to pay a visit to Cairo. At first the West Germans spoke indignantly of breaking relations with Cairo and suspending financial aid. Nasser was unimpressed. He summoned German Ambassador Georg Federer, called the Israeli arms deal "most degrading" and "disgusting," and declared: "We have received no aid from West Germany. You have taken part in some industrial projects, and we pay their costs in full. We have already repaid the larger part at 6% interest. Do you call this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Caving In | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

OPERA: Baritones rarely get the girl, but this year they take the cake. Geraint Evans turns in one of opera's great characterizations as the lecherous old swindler in RCA Victor's Falstaff, amply supported by the other singers and by Conductor Georg Solti. In Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. best known for his sorrowful lieder. proves himself equally expressive as the tragic hunchback in a powerful performance led by Rafael Kubelik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...MIRACULOUS MANDARIN SUITE (London). Intended for a dance pantomime, this is some of the most unsettling music ever written. A mandarin, lured by a prostitute and mortally stabbed by her accomplices, finds his lust stronger than death and miraculously lives until his passion is spent. Budapest-born Georg Solti, once a student of Bartók's, whips the London Symphony Orchestra into such a frenzy that the music has the power of a thunderbolt and the illumination of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...industry. With its top members on most major corporate boards and a $250 million treasury to invest, the West German Trade Union Federation has become absolutely capitalistic: it owns dozens of businesses, from the country's biggest housebuilder to a supermarket chain. Last week, Building Workers Chief Georg Leber presented Chancellor Ludwig Erhard with an ambitious plan under which management would channel 1.5% of labor's wages into a huge investment fund that would later pay benefits to the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Neocapitalism | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Berlin's Six Days dates back to 1909. By the early 1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Six Days | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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