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...before the engines could ignite. Just 55 seconds after liftoff, a weather shield tore loose, followed by a blazing rupture in a hydrogen fuel tank. With Centaur already 18 months behind schedule and Congressmen crying inept management NASA shifted the program from Marshall Space Flight Center, where Wernher von Braun's team was primarily concerned with the Saturn program, to the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. There tough-minded Director Abe Silverstein, 55, took charge...
...first wife of a German Chancellor in 30 years (excepting Eva Braun's few days) likes it better in the Haus than the banquet halls. Unpretentious Luise Erhard still does her own shopping in neighborhood stores and bargain basements, and she actively dislikes the necessary but nettlesome social functions. So during the round of farewell parties for Konrad Adenauer, it came as only a mild surprise one evening when she was the only woman in floor-length gown. Aghast at her gaffe, she whispered to Adenauer, "I feel so out of place." "Don't you worry," der Alte...
Trade & Land. The Braun-Menendezes own a fleet of twelve fishing and cargo ships, piers and a shipyard, and a six-plane airline called Austral with routes spanning 2,500 miles. Their 22 stores, selling everything from pins to pickup trucks, have prospered from Patagonia's oil boom; 600,000 sheep fatten on their vast ranches. In a holding company named La Josefina (after their mother), the family has impressive investments in Argentine banking, insurance and chemical companies. With all that diversity, they have prospered despite Argentina's continuing financial trouble. By family reckoning, their companies last year...
...trading possibilities; ships sailing around the Horn stopped to replenish, and Indians were ready to trade pelts, ambergris and even grazing rights for trinkets and tobacco. Menendez set up a trading post at Punta Arenas, a port and penal settlement, and became friendly with a German emigrant, Elias Braun, who farmed near by. In 1895 Braun's eldest son, Mauricio, married Menendez' eldest daughter, Josefina; joined to romance was a practical mixing of land and trade. La Anonima, now run by their children, was started by Mauricio Braun and Jose Menendez...
Ties & Tradition. The nine second-generation Braun-Menendezes (three sisters along with the brothers) are closer than Kennedys. All live in the same fashionable residential block in Buenos Aires, spend their weekends at a Hyannis Port-like suburban compound, where each has a chalet, and the men spend much time watching the younger generation play polo on a family team. Altogether they have 63 children, many of whom marry cousins or into families with promising business connections. "Above all," says Brother Armando, "we think and act as a family unit. The children in their way will keep the family...