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...shadows of Christmas Eve stretch across the cobblestone court yard of the St. Thomas school in Leipzig. Along the first floor, where the choirmaster lives, the windows glow with candlelight. A young Hausfrau, surrounded by half a dozen children and pregnant with another, bustles through the cluttered rooms preparing dinner. Her husband is busy copying the parts of his latest cantata, which he must soon rehearse with his musicians and singers for next morning's service, at the church across the courtyard...
...than such major concerts by well-known artists are the thousands of more modest Bach performances, ranging down to the smallest towns and the merest amateur level. Here Bach is pervasive. Following the pattern set by the present-day chorus at Bach's own St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, church and community choirs throughout the Western world are marking Christmas by singing something of Bach's, even if only a two-minute chorale. And what church organist will let Christmas-or any other week-go by without playing at least one Bach prelude or perhaps an entire recital...
...majestic than they might have been. Though East German churchmen had invited 850 Western colleagues to the ceremonies, the government granted visas to only 217. It prevented a huge "Christian witness" rally that the churches had planned, by refusing to approve the use of a suitable auditorium in nearby Leipzig. Western visitors, moreover, were not allowed to travel outside the Wittenberg area, occasioning a signed protest from several Christian delegates, among them, World Council of Churches' General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake, declaring that they might not have attended the observances at all "had they known of this restriction...
When they packed up their displays at the end of this month's Leipzig trade fair, most East German companies found themselves with virtually empty order books. One state-owned company had an altogether different problem. The famed Meissen chinaworks, which was the hit of the show, wound up with six months' worth of new business. The company's popularity was so striking that its managers were already finding it embarrassing; the "People's Own Plant, State China Manufactory, Meissen" had been running far behind in filling orders even before the trade fair began...
...back into a trigger man, with the boys in London calling the shots. He refuses, so they rig up a series of schemes, including the kidnaping of his son, to break down his resistance. When Sinatra is told that his son has been killed he finally goes to Leipzig to carry out the assignment-and then learns that, all along, he has been the biggest marionette in a puppet play...