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...Geel, one in seven families is responsible for the care of one or two men tal patients, and about 85% of the families who take in malades can truth fully say that their parents and grandparents did the same. "Here no one is afraid of mental patients," says Psychiatrist Herman Matheussen, 38, director of the program. When a schizophrenic plowing a field suddenly stops and begins gesticulating in a hallucinatory argument with an imaginary persecutor, his foster father may say calmly, "Joseph, why don't you finish that furrow...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (Angel). This collection of lieder, arias and assorted other snippets gives a fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well...
...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...
...Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks to the new prop erty for "important growth" in the field of communications...
...worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets. If the British have less buying power, he reckons, they will import less, export more...