Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken down and the good doctor was kind enough to allow me to use his until mine was repaired. Dr. Page's flack is a much better one than my own, having been made in Leipzig by Gustav Schmidt, an old master flackmaker. Leipzig, as you know, was for years the flack center of the world...
...most esteemed musical post in Germany, that of cantor to the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, is also the oldest: the first incumbent moved into the job in 1212. For 27 years (1723 to 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach himself directed the choir that has since become the chief custodian of his music. But in the last 3½ years, since scholarly Kurt Thomas took over as choirmaster, there have been persistent reports that the East German government has been trying to force the Thomaner to sing to a Communist tune. Last week Cantor Thomas fled to West Germany, taking...
...tour sched uled for the summer of 1957 was canceled over Thomas' violent protests. The Reds tried to pressure Thomas into performing fewer religious works, and objected to one of his own compositions because it contained the line, "Let us all praise God united." The Leipzig city assembly suggested that in the future the choir perform "songs of the new era." Finally, last week, the choir's long-planned tour of West Germany was abruptly canceled, and Thomas decided he had had enough. Said he in West Berlin: "I hope my decision may serve as an alarm signal...
...foot steps. Russia's European satellites are also hard at work infiltrating Africa in a carefully planned joint campaign coordinated by the East Germans. Since 1958, more than 800 African students and labor leaders have "matriculated" at both ordinary universities and special institutes in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Leipzig and East Berlin. Simultaneously, East German trade and cultural missions have been estab- lished in Ghana, Guinea, the Sudan, Nigeria, and in the Mali federation and Cameroon, where Communist parties and Red guerrillas (who had made earlier Moscow pilgrimages) already existed. Within two days after the Congo became independent last June...
Unfortunately, Ulbricht & Co. were in too big a hurry to get out front. When Nikita Khrushchev dropped in at the Leipzig Trade Fair in the spring of 1958, a life-sized mock-up of the 68-152 was one of the main attractions. Ulbricht could contain himself no longer. Over the protests of his engineers, who insisted the plane needed significant changes in fuselage and engine design, Ulbricht ordered the first prototype 66-152 into the air. Minutes after it took off, the jetliner crashed into a hillside, killing its four crew members...