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Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
...Otto Triffterer one of the six German exchange students here this year on special University scholarships, led all the way and took first place for Winthrop House. Triffterer sprinted at the start and settled down to a steady pace to keep about 100 yards between himself and his nearest rival. With about half a mile to go, Warren Little of Eliot and Pete Coker of Adams turned on the steam and almost caught him. Little finished second, about five yards behind, and Coker trailed Little by about a yard...
Married. Virginia Fortune Ryan, 19, daughter of U.S. Industrialist John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Lord Ogilvy, 26, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish Earldom of Airlie (two castles, one lodge, 69,000 acres) and onetime favorite escort of Princess Margaret. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, four other members of the Royal Family and 800 guests witnessed the most glittering Anglo-American union since the 1895 marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Ninth Duke of Marlborough; in St. Margaret's Church, London...
...nothing.'' On their way to lunch with the foreign press, the East Germans were showered with leaflets calling for an end to East German concentration camps and the release of Walter Linse, the West German anti-Communist who was kidnaped in Berlin last July. At the lunch Otto Nuschke, vice premier of East Germany, produced his packaged propaganda: "Serious anxiety for our homeland has driven us here . . . Our German fatherland is being integrated into [the Western] military system." Then the East Germans made three clumsy admissions...
...rubble, a cluster of neo-Nazi parties sprouted in postwar Germany. The only one to cause any serious worry among U.S. officials was the Socialist Reich party (SRP), which last year polled 360,000 votes in Lower Saxony. Its mouthpiece was a cut-rate Goebbels, former Major General Otto Ernst Remer, who peddled the line that Germany must return to the "good things" in Naziism. Last November, the West German government jailed Remer, asked the federal constitutional court to outlaw the party...