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...became unbearable to the maestro, and in 1971 he slipped out to Sweden on a carelessly stamped exit visa. He soon signed on as general music director of the Kiel Opera, then picked up guest engagements in Europe and America. Tennstedt made his U.S. debut in December 1974, conducting the Boston Symphony in Brahms and Bruckner. The complex, granitic Eighth Symphony of Bruckner was hardly an easy choice for a newcomer, but the performance made it clear that a conductor of the first rank had arrived. The Boston had not sounded so brilliant in years. Subsequent appearances - topped...
Peter Gorke Kiel, West Germany...
...carrying a .45-cal. pistol was sighted on a catwalk in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium just an hour before President Ford was to speak there on Sept. 12. He eluded police. About four hours before Moore raised her gun outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, Benedict Silcio, a 27-year-old stevedore, was arrested in that city's Union Square park for threatening Ford. He had handed a note to a cashier in the St. Francis that proclaimed, "The mission: To gun down President Ford. Need to have a room for three people." Then he fled into the park...
...couple G.O.P. fund raiser and address some 8,000 members of the National Baptist Convention of America, a black, religiously conservative church with 6.5 million members. While Ford was being interviewed at television station KMOX, a minor drama was unfolding ten blocks away. Inside cavernous Kiel Auditorium, where the President was scheduled to address the Baptists about one hour later, Patrolman Thomas L. Calcaterra spotted a man standing on a catwalk about 40 ft. above the stage -holding what appeared to be a .45-cal. pistol...
...Werft's Kiel shipyards produce "special ships" (read: submarines) for Latin America, while the state-owned Fritz Werner corporation exports entire ready-to-roll munitions factories. Bonn's Leopard tank is highly regarded: Washington may test an advanced Leopard, along with prototypes by General Motors and Chrysler, in a competition to select the U.S. Army's main battle tank for the 1980s...