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...seemed personal friends-or foes-of everyone in town. Once, when Contralto Maria Olszewska spat upon Maria Jeritza during a performance of Wagner's Die Walküre, partisans were close to rioting in cafes all over Vienna. Even while the war-gutted opera house was being slowly rebuilt during the past decade, Vienna managed to put on 600 opera performances a year in other houses (the Met stages about 200, including tours). And the Vienna telephone company offers each day's opera bill, with recorded excerpts...
...Bayerische Motoren Werke, which built the world's first mass-produced jet engine during the war, since then has rebuilt U.S. Army vehicles, now produces motorcycles and passenger cars. Last year B.M.W. set up a division to study jet propulsion; it has now gathered together all its old planning, design and production teams, hopes to start by producing U.S. jet engines under license...
...Hustler. Bürgermeister Kaisen took over a city 65% destroyed. More than 5,900,000 cu. yds. of rubble was hauled away, and Bremen was rebuilt on modern lines. Kaisen hastened recovery by going to Washington and persuading the U.S. to remove an allied restriction on shipbuilding, wheedled $20 million of U.S. aid for shipyard repairs...
...Rebuilt Cabinet. No President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration...
Kariye Camii was rebuilt in the early 1300s as a monastery church within Constantinople's mighty walls, at the order of a wealthy courtier, Theodore Metochites. All evidence indicates that the church was decorated by mosaic masters who were buoyed up by the same fresh new breeze of discovery that in the West heralded the first stirrings of the Renaissance. Into the rigid Byzantine forms that had governed Eastern religious art for almost a thousand years, Byzantine artists poured a new warmth drawn from revived classic models...