Word: wolfgang
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...Unity Day, as it is called, East Germany protested to the U.S., Britain and France that this would be a "provocative" act. But it was an East German border guard who did most to raise Berlin's blood pressure. When a twelve-year-old East Berlin schoolboy named Wolfgang Gloede approached the barbed wire opposite the U.S. sector, the Vopo opened fire with a machine pistol. West Berliners had to watch helplessly as the dying boy was dragged back from the wire and left unattended for an hour until an ambulance came. He died...
...Volume IV of Dogmatics. At his stucco house on Basel's Bruderholzallee, day begins around 8, when Barth's wife, or his longtime secretary. Charlotte von Kirschbaum, tiptoes to the phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes as a "constant of my existence." "When the angels praise God in Heaven," Barth once wrote, "I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them...
...Loeb Experimental Theatre will present the second American production of Wolfgang Borchart's Outside the Door (Daussen vor der Turm) in an original translation by Clayton T. Koelbe '64 and Peter T. Hoffer, Columbia '64. Koelbe will direct the production in connection with the Loeb's Directing Seminar Program...
Count Crash. Count Wolfgang von Trips, who could have managed his family's Hemmersback Castle in the German Rhineland as a moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...