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...Wilhelm Christians, a managing director of the Deutsche Bank, said that the world would have to be patient while the U.S. tried to turn its payments deficit into a surplus. "Most people expect too much too quickly from currency realignments," he explained. "The experience of American industry is different from the European. We have had to export to survive. American companies generally have not. Many have preferred to export dollars, to build plants overseas rather than to export goods...
...notes for the drama in the form of a seven-part special section on space exploration. One article, reported by Correspondent Leo Janos, discusses how their experiences on the moon have affected the men who walked there. Correspondent Jerry Hannifin described the Apollo 17 flight plan, while Correspondent John Wilhelm assessed the scientific rewards of lunar exploration...
...hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first-row-of-the-balcony" acoustics that Karajan seems to enjoy these days. The 20-year-old Tristan, starring Kirsten Flagstad and Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, incomparable and still available in excellent mono, remains the set to have...
Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (assorted soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting; Seraphim, 19 LPs, $53.98). With Beethoven and Brahms, Furtwängler could be infuriatingly eccentric. When he was conducting Wagner, though, his stately, expansive, analytic style produced performances that were ingeniously congruent with the composer's convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced...
Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...