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...years. The structure of ritual is so elaborately linked* that any change is likely to become a crucial change. If Latin were dropped, for example, it might be natural also to drop plain chant, which is awkward in most other languages. "In the last four centuries," says Jesuit Liturgist Hermann Schmidt, "the ideal has become immutability. Certainly God is immutable; but we are men, and we cannot always express ourselves the same. This is a crisis of immutability...
...profits to work, he dropped $250,000 in an ill-starred try at moviemaking. "I didn't even get to meet a beautiful movie star,'' he recalls ruefully. He also branched into banking, partly to finance a chocolate stockpile for Oetker-packaged puddings, took over Hermann Lampe, a private bank, and Frankfurt's Braubank. The latter's big holdings in beer companies put Oetker in the front rank of West German brewers...
...second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching for a bright young man to preside over its drive for diversification. Scheduled to take over as chief executive of Mannesmann Oct. 1, genial Herr Doktor Overbeck is currently studying the company's operations under the tutelage of retiring Chairman Hermann Winkhaus, 65, this week will fly off to Canada to inspect Mannesmann's steel plants there...
...what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...
...Siemens family man has been the chief ever since the company was started in 1847 in a small Berlin workshop by Werner Siemens and Johann Halske. Werner Siemens developed the world's first electric dynamo−and the company was on the high line. Another Von Siemens−Hermann, a grandson of Founder Werne−patched the company together after World War II had left it in smoldering ruins. He gathered the remnants of Siemens' skilled work force, gradually built new plants, and bought back Siemens' overseas properties that had been expropriated during...