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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headline news from Germany early this week was the electoral triumph of Mayor Willy Brandt in beleaguered West Berlin. But the accent on Berlin in the headlines-and in the newscasts-too often emphasized the present moment and neglected the past and the future. Using Berlin, Moscow has revived one of the oldest and bitterest cold war issues -the division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging...
...Radio Game. All, claims Author Nicholas, were victims of the "radio game": Abwehr, the German counterintelligence, when it had captured an agent and his set, often kept right on sending messages to London, using captured codes, and arranging for air drops of agents and supplies. London's S.O.E. security seemed incredibly lax. Agents had been taught to misspell words in predetermined sections of each message. Once, when the Abwehr sent a fake message through without the misspellings, London merely chided: "You forgot your double security check. Be more careful...
Strong as a Bull. Because good oboe players are scarce and because the instrument is extremely difficult to play, first oboists are often the most highly paid men in the orchestra, sometimes even better paid than the concertmaster. Most oboists make their own reeds, the shape and size of which largely determine the instrument's tone. Harold Gomberg, who has made trips to Europe in search of cane of the proper hardness, grain and color, maintains a studio where he spends dozens of hours a week whittling reeds to size (he uses as many as three reeds...
...after only a brief audition. Today he is booked solid two years in advance, has turned down offers from the San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala. He is one of the rare singers who can perform in lieder and in opera equally well. To Fischer-Dieskau, lieder are often vocally more of a challenge than opera. "In Winterreise,'' he says, "you have more than an hour of emotion without pause. But the role of Amfortas in Parsifal amounts to only 35 minutes of singing...
...last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions of mind and muscle-numbing physical labor by the nation's students, who work before and after classes and often during class hours as well...