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...Hartmann limited himself to the bare title and reference number, thinking that there would be no time for more. Mechanically, he started to move on to the next picture, but General Tanz lingered in front of 'Vincent in the Flames' longer than usual. He stared at the picture, or rather, he stared straight ahead and consequently--since it hung at eye level--at the picture...
...Hartmann approached with due caution. Suddenly, he saw the General's right arm begin to twitch convulsively. His hand, twisted into a claw, groped its way upwards and clutched his forehead in a vicelike grip. His body, usually as erect as a ferro-concrete tower, tottered and threatened to collapse...
...that era is over, and Germany's construction boom has slowed down: the industry contented itself with only a 3% increase in business last year. Hochtief grew twice as fast as that by rapidly expanding its foreign enterprises, raised its sales to $150 million last year. Says Wilhelm Hartmann, 55, who is in charge of foreign business and is expected to take over the firm next year: "We must continue to break our geographical boundaries." Hartmann looks to Asia, Africa and South America as places where future projects will be big enough to interest Hochtief. Besides the temple...
Self-Interested Aid. Hochtief now does nearly 25% of its business abroad -and Hartmann sees no reason why it should not do more. German firms, he feels, have a special advantage in sensitive new nations, because Germany has not been a colonial power since World War I. German firms also benefit from the self-interested way in which Bonn hands out foreign aid. Hochtief got a leg up for the big Abu Simbel project by winning a smaller, but highly important contract to move an ancient temple at Kalabsha that was also threatened with flooding from the Aswan dam. Hochtief...
...Hartmann's Symphony No. 5 received its United States premiere Friday as a memorial to the composer, who died a week ago yesterday. This symphony, called "Symphonie Concertante," is one of the more skillful anthologies of Stravinsky's music to appear since World War II. Its first movement presents the principal ideas of Agon, with a dash of Canticum Sacrum; its second, themes from The Rite of Spring; its third, themes from The Symphony of Psalms. After carful editing removes the boring parts where Hartmann tries some of his own tricks, the symphony should be very popular in short courses...