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Died. Friedrich Flick, 89, West Germany's most powerful industrialist; of a kidney malfunction; in Constance, West Germany. As head of prewar Germany's biggest coal-and-steel conglomerate, Flick was a major supplier of German armaments during World War II. Though 80% of his holdings were confiscated and Flick served a five-year sentence after the war, he emerged from prison in 1950 and quietly began again. Within two decades he acquired control over more than 200 paper, steel, chemical and automobile companies, including 40% of Daimler-Benz. At his death, he was reputedly West Germany...
...Willi Daume, president of the Olympic Organizing Committee in Munich, said that Hunter would not be welcome at the Games because "an Olympic athlete should be an example to youth." The U.S. Olympic Committee "would be wise" not to send the 21-year-old boxer, advised Daume, a successful industrialist who played basketball for Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. If Hunter did turn up, Daume added, he might run afoul of an Olympic rule on housing. Implying that Hunter might need to be billeted in a local prison, Daume noted a requirement of the Games that competitors...
...highly emotional antiMarket campaign, Sinn Féin (Gaelic for "We Ourselves") distributed almost 1,000,000 pamphlets urging voters "once and for all to break the link with England by voting no to England's interests." One antiMarket billboard showed an ugly, cigar-chomping German industrialist saying "We need your little daughter in the Ruhr," a reference to the prospect that unemployed Irish workers might have to seek jobs on the Continent. Labor unions worried about "the oppressive open competition of European industrial society...
Five years ago, retired Cincinnati industrialist J. Ralph Corbett-whose Corbett Foundation is one of U.S. opera's great benefactors-presented the University of Cincinnati with a new, 717-seat auditorium. Then Corbett and his wife Patricia decided that the university's music complex needed a more intimate house alongside it. To open its acoustically superb 400-seat Patricia Corbett Theater, the university announced what seemed an unlikely production: Pier Francesco Cavalli's 321-year-old opera Calisto, which Conductor Raymond Leppard dusted off for Britain's Glyndebourne Festival in 1970. By last week, the little...
...blends into the landscape is ex-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, currently vacationing in an Acapulco villa with his own supplies of bottled water, tapioca, steak and ketchup. When a dinner invitation came from Acapulco's social pinnacle -the white marble mansion of Actress Merle Oberon and her Mexican industrialist husband Bruno Pagliai -L.BJ. said no thanks, he'd drop by afterward. Lady Bird demurred, but Lyndon isn't about to do anything he doesn't want to do these days. "Bird," he said, "you know I'm not goin' to eat anywhere but here...