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...spent two years in a French prison as a war criminal. Porsche's postwar success is a product of his son, Ferry Porsche, 56, a cautious, brooding engineer. Ferry brought Porsche from a garage in Gmünd, Austria to a glass-and-concrete factory outside Stuttgart, where 2,400 workers now turn out 56 cars a day-every one handmade and every engine stamped with the initials of the master mechanic who assembled it. Porsche sales last year reached $40 million, a 350-fold increase over...
...months ago Stuttgart's Institute of Foreign Relations published its latest revised edition of The National An thems of the World. It was outdated even before it went on sale. So fast are new nations emerging these days that the anthems of Africa's two newest, Gambia and Zambia, appeared after the anthology had gone to press. At last count there were more than 150 assorted anthems in the world, hailing the glories of every nation from Red China ("Build anew the Great Wall from flesh and blood, arise!") to tiny Liechtenstein ("Where the chamois freely jumps about...
BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the soloists, all competent, Peter Pears as the narrator and August Messthaler as Judas stand...
...house. In Düsseldorf's cupboard of tarts, the girls pay only for room, board and services, just as they would in a normal hotel. Moreover, their hostel is a place of immaculate order; noisy guests are ordered to leave, and drunks are not allowed in. In Stuttgart's eight-year-old Drei-Farben hostel, business is transacted only from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.-except on Sundays and holidays, when its 71 practitioners knit and watch television...
...with erotic murals and antique chairs, offered their patrons bare-breasted dancing partners as a starter. But wherever they have sprung up, the hostels have done a land-office business. The Düssel-dorf establishment alone handles nearly 8,000 customers a day-at $3.75 apiece -and in Stuttgart, the monthly take...