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Executives of Chemie Grünenthal GMBH had been on trial for 20 months in a suit brought by the West German government in behalf of the parents and children. In a courtroom improvised from a miners' hall in Alsdorf, near Aachen, company lawyers had been skillfully using delaying moves in an apparent effort to wear down the plaintiffs. Their efforts seemed to be paying off; by last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom...
...exchange for being released from further risks and liability from parents' suits related to thalidomide, Chemie Grünenthal offered the 100 million marks for "the children." The company did not specify which children, in the hope of avoiding even tacit admission that any had been specifically damaged by thalidomide. In fact, no one was certain how many children would be covered by the proposed settlement. Some put the number of surviving thalidomide victims at only 2,000, which would mean an average settlement of about $13,000 each. Other counts put the number at more than...
...asked ABC for a little time off," Joey Bishop wisecracked to his studio audience one night last week, "but this is ridiculous." Joey will get the last 13 months of his contract off, ending a hopeless 2½-year challenge to NBC's Johnny Carson. The coup de gráce was the entry of CBS's Merv Griffin into the late-night competition in August. At last count, Johnny was attracting 33% of the audience to Merv's 18% and Joey...
...place. The place was Hamburg's Kunsthalle, and the occasion the celebration of its 100th anniversary. The result was the realization that Meister Francke, an altar painter who worked in Hamburg around the year 1420, has far better claim than his later compatriots, Dürer, Cranach or Grünewald, to the title of Germany's first great artist...
When Don Sergio, 61, became bishop of Cuernavaca in 1952, he did not enter the job as an innovator. Then, shortly after his consecration, he spent some time at Father Grégoire Lemercier's fledgling Benedictine monastery in the Cuernavaca suburbs, where he was impressed with both the pastoral uses of the monks' experimental worship services and the strikingly different religious art that complemented them. The bishop asked the monastery's principal artist, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora, to help him refurbish the city's 400-year-old cathedral. Gloomy Victorian clutter...