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...nice girl like you get into this business?" reads the caption under one of the eight photos that make up Barbara Benton's "uncoverage" in the March issue of Playboy. It could be the company she keeps. Barbi, a beguiling brunette, is the constant companion and consort-designate of Maximum Playboy Hugh Hefner ("The first time I've ever been in love"). When Playboy's publisher first met his Barbi doll, she was a student at U.C.L.A. and had "no interest whatsoever in any kind of a nude feature. When she became interested in a film career...
...engaged to marry pretty Olympic Skier Barbi Henneberger when she was killed in the April 12 Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi's and Werner's deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that...
...Moritz. Cameras whirred; Werner and 14 other skiers started down the hill. Suddenly, there was a sharp crack, and tons of snow thundered toward the valley floor below. By scrambling and flailing, most of the 15 "swam" on top of the avalanche to safety. Not Werner. And not Barbi Henneberger, 23, a pretty German skier. Together, they tried to race the 500-ft.-wide wall of snow...
...Barbi never had a chance. But Bud almost won the race. Crouched far for ward, poles tucked tightly under his arms, he strained for speed; horrified onlookers guessed that he was hitting 50 m.p.h. Then, just 15 ft. from safety, he stumbled, staggered and fell. By the time rescuers found the two skiers, four hours later, both were dead...
...Some say "bar-bit-yourates" and others "barbi-tyoo-rates"; both are right according to medical and lay dictionaries. How the drug family got its name is also a fielder's choice. Some say that German Chemist Adolf Baeyer named barbiturates for St. Barbara, on whose day in 1862 he first extracted the drug in pure form. But medical historians think it was named for a waitress in Munich who contributed urine samples for the research. Others say it was a waitress named Barbara all right, and Baeyer got the samples easily because she was his mistress...