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...main box-office attraction in West Germany last week was a film that froze its packed audiences to stiff attention and sent them from the theater in silence with eyes averted. Compiled by a German-born Swedish intellectual named Erwin Leiser, it is a documentary that traces with graphic intensity the rise and collapse of the Third Reich. Its title: Mein Kampf...
...Courses. Roberts has not neglected quality control altogether. Marginal students get stiff tutoring, and most of them have done well. Of 86 flunkees imported last fall from other schools, all but eight averaged C or better, and four got straight A's. Like any shrewd businessman, Roberts has also eliminated unprofitable branches: 400 courses have been cut to 169, and it is no longer possible to major in art or music or study creative writing...
...Lack of planning by cities and wasteful over-zoning by many suburban communities have contributed. Many of the choicest U.S. suburban towns keep out small-home buyers (whose children would cost the town more to educate than their parents would pay in taxes) by requiring two-acre lots, setting stiff building codes that make new houses expensive...
...Ministry to find a way around the law and stop service. Workmen were already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price: $90,000. In consolation, it offered to rent them the old Sheffield Park booking office for 5 shillings (70? ) a week...
Although prices are stiff (as much as $6,000 for a good modern instrument), there are several thousand harpsichords scattered about the country today, where there were only 500 or so a decade ago. Until 1949, there was only one noted harpsichord maker in the U.S.; now there are half a dozen. The do-it-yourself trend has taken hold, too; in the Boston area alone, during the past two years, a dozen harpsichords have been built by amateurs. At least 50 colleges and music schools offer special harpsichord courses...