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Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry. With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward agreed to give up his positions as president, sole owner, chief engineer and designer of the firm he founded 33 years ago and built into the sixth-largest automaker in Germany. The Bremen city council will take over Borgward and its subsidiaries to try to save the 19,000 jobs...
...Germany's own internal expansion requires all the spare cash available. But, although Konrad Adenauer would be able to protest that another election is coming up, it looked as if the Germans might be hooked for at least some contribution. Reporting the impending Dillon-Anderson visit, Hamburg's Die Welt commented gloomily: "The Federal Government is disturbed . . . giving up money seems inevitable...
...modern railroad-station architecture. Included, in addition to Machaut and Hindemith's own work, were five intricate and austere pieces of church music by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) arranged for choir, some with instrumental accompaniment. Hindemith, a first-rate conductor, gave them all performances that Die Welt's critic found "almost overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Verdi-Un Ballo in Maschera; Bach-Partita No. 2 for Harpsichord; Hindemith-Die Harmonie der Welt...
...pointed out that the snubs were probably not directed at Meg and Tony personally, but were retaliatory slaps at the snobbery of Queen Elizabeth, who has failed to attend, or to send a representative to, many of the weddings and funerals of continental royalty. In Germany, the Hamburg Die Welt ran a cartoon showing a king on the phone to Britain, saying, "But in case we should need asylum again, we'd be glad to come...