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Klausner explored the violent hatred of Jews of one man, Rudolf Hess, commandant of the Auschwitz death camp. Seeing Jews who had lost their identities, whose sole aim in life was to avoid the gas chamber, he could hardly avoid becoming totally oblivious to their feelings...
...Hill, where he lay in public view, Gottwald was moved to a national memorial park and placed underground. Novotny himself used to be a notorious Stalinist, but in an ironic and macabre turnabout managed to blame most of his party's past Stalinist errors on former Party Boss Rudolf Slansky, who was hanged in 1952. Slansky, went the story, had misled Gottwald into the Stalinist personality cult, but despite "shortcomings and mistakes" he was still "a leading revolutionary...
...Longtime Monday-night holder, as was his late father, of the Metropolitan Opera's Box 35 -the best seat in the house-at a cost of $2,000 per season. *Exceptions: the annual summer seminars at Rudolf Serkin's summer quarters in Vermont, the Casals festivals in Puerto Rico each year, and past festivals in Prades and Perpignan, France...
...late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter...
...other half of the physics prize went to Rudolf L. Mössbauer, 32, of West Germany, who is now working at Caltech. In 1958, while he was still a graduate student at Munich's Institute of Technology, Mössbauer published in Zeitschrift für Physik a sensational paper reporting that gamma rays given off by certain radioactive isotopes can be used for infinitely delicate measurements. When projected toward suitable absorbers, those gamma rays can gauge extremely small motions and distances. They have even been used to register the slight change of frequency that results when they...