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BEETHOVEN: SONATAS NO. 12 AND 18 (London). Wilhelm Backhaus, 80, has spent a lifetime studying and restudying Beethoven. He is now rerecording some of the sonatas, with a technique that is still formidable, an interpretation that is firm, majestic and less personal than that of Artur Schnabel, his late great contemporary. Only in the Funeral March of the 12th is Backhaus disappointing; he seems to be impatient, even bored...
Also widely admired was "Wild Dream," designed by Joe Wilhelm of San Jose Calif. With an aluminum body and chassis of rectangular tubing, 'it has a Corvette engine, the popular "California tilt" (front end lower than rear), and is finished in purple metal-flake acrylic paint...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
...Orgone Box is a half-forgotten invention of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich, one of Sigmund Freud's more brilliant disciples, who in his middle years turned into an almost classic specimen of the mad scientist. The device was supposed to gather, in physical form, that life force which Freud called libido and which Reich called orgone, a coinage derived from "orgasm." The narrow box, simply constructed of wood and lined with sheet metal, offered cures for almost all the ills of civilization and of the body; it was also widely believed to act, for the person sitting inside...
...that era is over, and Germany's construction boom has slowed down: the industry contented itself with only a 3% increase in business last year. Hochtief grew twice as fast as that by rapidly expanding its foreign enterprises, raised its sales to $150 million last year. Says Wilhelm Hartmann, 55, who is in charge of foreign business and is expected to take over the firm next year: "We must continue to break our geographical boundaries." Hartmann looks to Asia, Africa and South America as places where future projects will be big enough to interest Hochtief. Besides the temple...