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Born in Nuremberg, Jahn studied architecture in Munich and came to this country in 1966 to do postgraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the citadel of Mies van der Rohe's bare and square architectural puritanism. Jahn joined the firm of C.F. Murphy in 1967 and became its chief designer in 1973. The firm changed its name to Murphy/Jahn eight years later...
...Department of the interior placed the timber wolf on ts endangered species list. But un der pressure from Minnesota authorities, the department downgraded the wolfs status to a threatened species, allowing eradication of so-called problem wolves, like the pair that strolled into a mining company lunchroom in the town of Babbitt last year...
...stations where a range of goods and services is on sale. Texaco's familiar star is given new prominence by being displayed in white on a red circle against a black background. The company's black, white and red service stations have a clean, nononsense, Mies van der Rohe look. The only adornments are deadpan signs reminding customers to turn off their engines, check the oil and, with gas sales dropping because of fuel-efficient engines, urging them to get a car wash, snacks or cigarettes. To date, 94 new Texaco stations have been built and more than...
...perhaps the final act by a leader West Germans had celebrated as der Macher (the Doer). Schmidt has played a key role in steering the nation to unprecedented prosperity and international respect during his 30 years in politics, eight of them as Chancellor. True to form, in one swift, decisive action Schmidt had moved to break West Germany's festering political crisis and shouldered the responsibility of bringing about the collapse of his own government. In so doing, he paved the way for his probable replacement by Christian Democratic Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...
...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...