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Mayor Albertz had been in office only six months when he began to lose his grip. His trouble started with the Shah of Iran's visit in June, when West Berlin police fired on student demonstrators, killing one of them. Albertz backed up his police, but later had to back down when the city's parliament decided that the police had, in fact, used too much muscle. After that, internal party squabbles forced Albertz to resign. Last week, by a vote of 81 to 38, the West Berlin parliament gave the problem-packed mayoral post to energetic Klaus...
Behn himself became an anachronism, a courtly man who still relished leisurely, ten-course lunches at a time when the rest of the business world was moving at a breakneck clip. In 1956, a year before he died at 75, Behn finally relinquished his tight grip on the company. About the only achievement of his immediate successors (and Geneen's immediate predecessors) was to drop the ampersand-making it ITT instead...
...welfare worker who gets chased off the streets by the very people he is trying to help. All three become ruinously involved with a right-wing tycoon who controls several top city officials and now wants to lead a cryptofascist "moral" crusade. Stone's theme is the inextricable grip of the underworld on its inhabitants; he draws a sure-handed diagram of brutal power and its victims...
...while. They should have been rewritten. Especially in face of the finely directed and magnificently acted confrontation between Deitch and Adagala. Adagala moves with Stoic strength and speaks a measured rage from behind a white mask of makeup. Deitch's eventually triumphant vitality is less restrained. His eyes grip the audience even with his head hanging upside down off the edge of a table...
Jazz, which every few years is pronounced dead and then somehow revives, has really begun to develop fatal symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...