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...testy, mercurial sort, Schiller was an academic prodigy before he got into government. The son of an engineer, he earned his economics doctorate at 24, developed a fascination for Keynesian economics as a lecturer at Kiel and a full professor at Hamburg. He got a chance to put his theories into practice in 1961, when Willy Brandt, then socialist mayor of Berlin, put Schiller to work at reversing the divided city's economic decline. By offering various tax incentives, Schiller successfully stanched a worrisome exodus of citizens from the city...
McCarthy's campaign seemed to be peaking exactly on time. In St. Louis, 12,500 supporters packed into Kiel Auditorium for a McCarthy rally while 2,000 more listened outside. They cheered so fervently that they even brought a tear to the unemotional Minnesotan's eye. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden on what supporters called "M Night," another 20,000 gathered. Closed-circuit television piped his speech to 22 auditoriums through the country, where 160,000 more heard him. He faces heavy campaign debts-but the faithful that night alone pledged or contributed...
...Fulton, Mo., that Winston Churchill first used the term Iron Curtain, in a speech there in 1946. But to the members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 100 miles east of Fulton, the really troublesome iron curtain was the one that divided the massive Kiel Auditorium into two parts: a symphony hall on one side and a sports arena on the other. Once, Pianist Andre Watts, playing a concerto with the orchestra, heard a strange noise. "I thought something was wrong with the timpani," he said, "but it was only applause for a basketball game on the other side...
Last week the 90-member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Eleazar de Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction...
Haese's rise to fame is all the more surprising because he so sedulously refuses to court it. The son of a Kiel mechanical engineer, he moved to Düsseldorf to study at its prestigious art school. While there, he immersed himself in Zen Buddhism, discovered his modus operandi during a meditation in 1960 when his watch shattered into pieces. Today he, his wife, his nine-year-old son and their uncaged parakeet live in a Düsseldorf public housing project. Haese insists on keeping the apartment so clean that the entire family removes its shoes before...