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...year 1932 was anything but consistent and even-tempered. The one overshadowing constant was the Great Depression: 12 million workers were jobless, and as the months went by, more and more banks, businesses and factories folded up. The year slapped a brusque eviction notice on President Herbert Hoover and handed New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt a ticket to what turned into the longest White House tenure in history. It awarded triumph to Amelia Earhart as the first woman to match Charles A. Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic. 1932 also brought cruel tragedy...
...individual scientist symbolized the new maturity of this arcane art more than Herbert Boyer, 44, a curly-topped, rumpled-looking biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco. In the 1960s Boyer was taking part in antiwar protests in the streets of Berkeley. Last year he led a different type of demonstration: the parade of scientists who are taking gene engineering out of the laboratory and into the marketplace, where it promises a host of wonders, from new drugs and foodstuffs to pollution-gobbling bugs...
Pierce's background worries some critics, who wonder if he has enough feeling for the problems of U.S. minorities. Says the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, head of the Black United Front, which is based in Brooklyn: "As far as I know, there's no track record of any involvement in any struggle I've been with...
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Angel, 3 LPs). Herbert von Karajan creates a lucid, lyrical recording. Frederica von Stade, as Mélisande, stands out for her exquisite French style...
...sputter badly. In 1980, West Germany's current account deficit, which includes trade of both goods and services, reached a record $15.4 billion; inflation was 5.2%, an unacceptable level by West German standards. The Bonn government is therefore slowing the growth of spending and curbing the money supply. Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, expects no growth in his country this year, following a 1% decline in 1980. Though inflation should fall to 3.5% by the end of 1981, unemployment will rise from its present rate...