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...Lufthansa Pilot Reinhard Noethel, bringing in a 707 jetliner from Cologne at 39,000 ft., it was the same story?almost. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced on the intercom, "on the left side you can see Boston." Noethel looked out the left side and gasped. "All I could see," he said later, "were some blue lights...
...World War II prisoner held near Concordia, Kans., German Afrika Korps Lieut. Reinhard Mohn developed a command of English and an affection for American ways. Mohn returned to Germany and took over his family's small 111-year-old C. C. Bertelsmann publishing company, read all that he could find about U.S. management ideas-and made the firm the colossus of the West German book business, ten times larger than its nearest competitors. Lately he has made himself West Germany's movie king as well. He has bought the famed but financially troubled Ufa studio, and last month...
...because Austria already belongs to a rival trade bloc, the European Free Trade Association. Austria depends on the Common Market for 50% of its trade (v. 18% with EFTA), and feels that its prosperity is endangered by the Market's common tariff barrier. Says Austrian National Bank President Reinhard Kamitz, a prime architect of Austria's economic revival: "As long as we do not try for full membership, we will not be violating our neutrality agreement...
...Hate Americans." Ex-Wehrmacht General Reinhard Gehlen, who is as secretive as any of his 5,000 men (his last known photograph dates from 1944), set up his outfit in 1947 with the cooperation of the CIA. It was staffed largely with veteran agents who got their training under the Nazis, although Gehlen himself had never joined the Nazi party. In 1955 the Gehlen apparatus was turned over from CIA control to the West German government; it reports directly to the Chancellor's office, has a top secret budget. Yet in court, the three men who penetrated its walled...
German Atonalist Zillig wrote his opera The Sacrifice in 1937, but the work had only three performances until its present revival at West Germany's Kassel Opera House. Based on a play by the late expressionist writer Reinhard Goering,* Sacrifice tells the story of Robert Scott's last, tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1912. Its legendary hero is Lawrence Gates, who suffered frostbite and, realizing that he was jeopardizing the chances of the other members of the expedition, marched off into a blizzard in a suicidal sacrifice. In Zillig's treatment, the penguins enter...