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Tennstedt is 50. To the young Turks of the conducting life, that is pushing senescence. To the senior members of the breed, it is mere adolescence. To Tennstedt, it is an age at which everything falls into place. Born in Merseburg, Germany, Klaus took up the violin at the age of eight; by 22 he was concertmaster at the municipal theater in Halle. When a nerve disorder damaged a finger of the left hand several years later, he turned to conducting. At 32 he became music director of the Dresden Opera. There were, later on, tours of the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia...
...highest living standard of any Communist country and-at least by its own statistics-ranks as the world's tenth biggest industrial power, eighth in production of TV sets, seventh in chemicals, fifth in exports of office machines. From such plants as the Leuna chemical works at Merseburg and the Carl Zeiss works at Jena-mostly established before World War II and rebuilt after bombings and Soviet dismantling-skilled workers turn out an array of petrochemicals, computers and heavy machines for the entire Eastern bloc...
...Again. Last fortnight the Germans picked a day to fight-putting up 500 fighters over one target alone, the Merseburg oil plants in central Germany-and they knocked down 40 U.S. bombers, 19 escorts. But they lost 208 planes of their own. Since then, they have made only occasional, feeble feints...
...Dropped one million tons of bombs on enemy targets (the one-millionth mark was reached during a raid on an oil refinery in Merseburg-Leuna on Sept. 28). The rate for one "recent" month was 4,400 tons per day, or three tons a minute...
This was the biggest formation ever seen of the biggest plane in the war, the Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks...
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