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...stop eight men as rapidly as possible under bad lighting conditions-an impossible task. The small German force of police held back for more than an hour after the first shots were fired. Some of the 500 German soldiers on hand, who were under control of Interior Minister Bruno Merk of the Bavarian government, were being used to control crowds on the perimeter of the airfield. They would have been more usefully employed in assaulting the helicopters. By holding back after committing themselves, the Germans wasted their advantage of surprise...
...through 1970. So far, this rule has not hurt industry much; corporate profits surged to a record rate in the first quarter (see chart) without subjecting too many companies to rollbacks, and even those firms have not necessarily suffered. In order to get within its profit-margin ceiling, Bruno...
Food Stores, a 31 -supermarket chain based in Birmingham, had to institute bargain-basement prices: 990 per Ib. for choice steak, $1.07 for three pounds of coffee. "It is O.K. with me," says Owner Joe Bruno. Since the price cuts, sales have zoomed...
...Ford Enterprises rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...
Still alive and kicking on the come-back trail, wily Bruno dazzled Tanaka with his classic moves and the enraged Professor abandoned Jujitsu in favor of a desperation chair-smash. It backfired...