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...Commerzbank, one of Germany's Big Three, and for British Investment Banker Siegmund Warburg. After shifting into industry, he became a successful doctor of ailing companies. Vogelsang recruited him four years ago to take charge of Krupp's weakest branch, its money-losing shipbuilding subsidiary, A.G. Weser. Under Krackow's management, the number of man-hours needed to produce a supertanker was cut by one-third, and Weser swung round from a loss of $8.5 million in 1968 to a profit of $4.7 million...
...hopes to do better by making the company multinational. Says he: "I can conceive of opportunities for American partners to collaborate with Krupp in Europe in certain areas, using American know-how. Conversely, I can think of areas in America that could well be enriched with Krupp ideas." The Weser subsidiary, for instance, has been developing ice-breaking bulk carriers and tankers, and Krackow hopes to enter into joint ventures with U.S. and Canadian firms for the exploitation of the Arctic's huge oil and mineral deposits...
...exchange of both student and faculty personnel will do much to further mutual understanding of medical, social and human problems in our own as well as in foreign cultures," said Dr. Dieter Kooh-Weser, associate dean for International Affairs at the Medical School...
...Recent experiences of undergraduate medical students from Harvard who have had an opportunity to participate in study programs abroad." koch-Weser added, "have pointed up the significant value of such experiences to our students...
Crowded Market. After months of delay, the hares have begun to nibble. Two Bremen outfits-Focke-Wulf and Weser-late last year merged to form the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, now Germany's largest planemaking company (7,000 workers). Last week Claudius Dornier, 79, boss of his family-owned aircraft company, agreed to join the four leading planemakers in southern Germany-Messerschmitt, Siebelwerke, Heinkel and Bolkow-in establishing a joint company for research and development. The leading power in the new company is Ludwig Bolkow, 51, a wartime designer for Messerschmitt and a leading Eierk...