Word: wagnerism
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...last all was ready. On Christmas Eve, Weidner and Wagner piled their wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
Sharp Blades. The hazards would be great on the journey to the border; so Weidner signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
...even the pro forma meetings across the conference table broke off once more. Federal Mediator Stephen I. Schlossberg taxed both sides with failure "to bargain seriously," threatened to maintain the recess "until the parties are ready to make some progress." New York's Mayor Robert Wagner absolved himself of an active mediator's role in a shutdown that has affected the very pulse of his city. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller promised to step in if the need arose, but felt that with a federal mediator on the scene his intervention now would only "complicate the situation...
...voice is as pure as mountain air. As Walther, he seemed strong and bashful, creating a likable understatement of the part that might have annoyed Wagner but seemed just fine at the Met. Having built toward his Met debut since 1958, when he first appeared with the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe, Thomas was mildly disappointed by the morning silence that followed his big night. But he has the consolation of two more leading roles at the Met this season (Bacchus in Ariadne and Radames in Aïda) plus opera and recording contracts that will keep him busy...
...news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford. New York Times vice president...