Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business is done outside the U.S. But European firms are more than taking up the slack. Germany's AEG, Thyssen, Siemens and Hoechst, for example, have moved in to escape the 25% withholding tax at home on interest paid to foreign holders of German bonds. The roster has grown to 32 companies, almost all in the big leagues...
Stripped of the yard-tall rabbit-fur hat and German military uniform he wore in high school, unable to use fire batons in daylight, and handicapped by the cold winds of Boston, Tuckwiller cannot put on a precision Big Ten show here. But he practices about eight hours a week, working out routines that will entertain rather than dazzle the audience...
Schubert loomed large in last night's concert, on as well as off the program. Princeton began the evening with five of the composer's works for male chorus. As a convinced German Romantic, I can hardly object to this choice of music sui generis; but the texture of these pieces is so consistently homophonic, and the rhythmic pattern and figuration of accompaniment so adamantly constant that even I found the novelty wearing off after a while. What makes Schubert worth listening to are the exquisite tunes of harmony with which he glides so effortlessly from one surprising...
Promise for the Mourning. On October 31, an ecumenical procession of colorfully robed clergymen shuffled solemnly along Wittenberg's cobbled streets from the Lutherhaus, the building where Luther worked and taught, to the stately Castle Church. There, East German Bishop Johannes Janicke of East Germany's Evangelical Church preached a sermon based on the beatitudes that had a distinctly contemporary relevance. Today, he said, "the cry of the masses for righteousness has been clad in atheistic ideology." Nonetheless, "the beatitudes place the poor, the mourning, the meek and the hungry under the promise of God's government...
Died. Dr. Ludwig Roth, 58, German-born rocket engineer; of pneumonia; in Redondo Beach, Calif. Chief designer of the V-l "buzz bombs" that crashed on London in World War II, Roth joined the German rocketeers brought to the U.S. in 1945, contributed greatly to NASA programs...