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...record he would like to be known as 1069 (pronounced One Zero Six Nine), but friends may call him "One Zero" for short. He wants society to recognize his right to use the four digits as his legal name rather than the one his parents gave him-Michael Herbert Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County...
...Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature of life...
Married. Lieut, (j.g.) Dieter Dengler, 28, German-born U.S. Navy pilot who last July became the first captured airman to escape from North Viet Nam, after six months of torture and imprisonment; and Marina Adamich, 24, Yugoslavian-born Stanford University chemistry research assistant, his fiancee of two years, who said, days before the wedding: "He's changed. We just could never marry now," but then obviously changed her mind; in Reno...
Escape was constantly on Dengler's mind, but the prisoners decided to wait until monsoons had swollen the streams and rivers down which they hoped to float. On June 29 they made their break. Dengler slipped his footcuffs, grabbed four rifles and a bag of rice while the guards were eating. The prisoners killed six of their captors in a flurried firefight, then split into pairs in hopes of making their escape route difficult to follow...
Loaded with Death. Dengler's teammate was Air Force Lieut. Duane Mar tin, 26, of Denver, whose rescue helicopter had been shot down in September 1965. Twice the pair slept in abandoned villages; then they built a raft and floated downstream until an unexpected waterfall smashed their craft. They came upon a third village that appeared abandoned: it was instead loaded with death. A man sprang from a hut and hit Martin on the leg with a machete; a second swipe hit the stumbling Air Force pilot between shoulders and neck, beheading him. Dengler fled back into the bush...