Word: von
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...ever heard. It called the present rate of aid from rich to poor "appalling" and criticized the industrial nations, notably the U.S., Britain and West Germany, for impeding the creation of a "new economic order." Significantly, the speaker was West Germany's own Baron Rüdiger von Wechmar in his inaugural address upon his election as President of the General Assembly...
...Dale Arden, has become a working woman-a travel agent. And the hand-cranked special effects of Buster Crabbe's day have given way to Star Wars technics. Arch enemy Ming the Merciless hasn't changed a bit. Still "a mixture of Mephisto and Rasputin," says Max von Sydow, who portrays him. "I haven't had such fun since I played a monster who ate children at a Stockholm children's theater...
...Roland Von Huene, the U.S. Geological Survey ma rine geologist who first spot ted the curious object, recalls: "The center hole had clearly been made by tools...
...surprise of the evening is Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until To morrow), a one-act comic opera being given its U.S. stage premiere. Schoenberg had consolidated his epochal twelve-tone system by 1923, supplanting the traditional seven-note scale with all twelve chromatic tones, which, in various intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism...
Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes...