Word: klaus
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Does the world really need another conductor of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and the other immortals? If his name is Klaus Tennstedt, the answer is a fortissimo yes. Unknown to the majority of American music lovers, the former East German maestro has become one of the most sought-after guest conductors in the U.S. Watching, the onlooker may wonder why: on the podium the man often resembles a stoned stork. Hearing his music is another matter: Tennstedt elicits a sound with the startling ring of rightness. Indeed, his musical logic may be the most profound since the late Otto Klemperer...
...water port facilities are built. While these ungainly and oddly delicate ships-seaborne "steel balloons," Supership Author Noël Mostert calls them-are by no means immune to trouble, they are primarily run by big operators, including oil companies, that set high standards for captains and crews. Says Klaus Meurs, senior instructor at a school for tanker officers in The Netherlands: "The problem of badly managed ships handled by second-rate crews will remove itself. Supertankers can only be handled by responsible shipowners who put the very best people in charge...
...subject of science for the curious layman, Professor Klaus Biemann, director of the Viking Molecular Analysis Team will discuss life on Mars and other characteristics of the red planet, this Thursday at 8 p.m. in room...
...agency to claim the assassination for a group calling itself the Che Guevara International Brigade. The killing, he said, had been timed to approximate the anniversary of the May 8, 1945 surrender of Hitler's forces in Europe because Zenteno had supported Bolivia's refusal to extradite Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief of Lyon, on France's request. Furthermore, the caller added, the dapper ambassador was marked for death because in 1967, as a Bolivian colonel, he had supervised the CIA-trained forces that tracked down and killed Fidel Castro's roving revolutionary Che Guevara...
...really began in 1949, when the Soviet Union surprised U.S. experts by testing its first nuclear bomb. A natural fear that the Russians had stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice...