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...Dieter Schepp, a nephew recently arrived from East Germany, was making his first appearance in the great pyramid in Detroit on the night of Jan. 30, 1962, when he suddenly began losing his grip on the balance pole. There came a terrible cry: "Ich kann nicht mehr halten "(I can't hold on any more). Then the pole slipped, Dieter fell, and the whole pyramid of Wallendas came apart in midair, some clinging to the wire, others plunging to the concrete floor. Dieter and another man died there; Karl's adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist...
...against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted for two of every three letters and phone calls from constituents last week-as to make it likely that some exceptions to the Delaney amendment will be enacted. Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Baltimore Democrat and a dieter who has "just lost 50 pounds," says that the saccharin ban reminds her of Prohibition: "People will use the stuff anyway. I can envision speakeasies selling diet soda...
...Golden Door, a chic fat farm in Escondido, Calif., Chef Michel Stroot wondered what he would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange...
...easygoing mood that marked the first days of the Communist occupation of Saigon is quickly vanishing, according to Western observers who have recently left South Viet Nam's capital. "The smiles of those days have faded," says Dieter Ludwig, a West German photographer who was expelled from Saigon when the new rulers decided to reduce drastically the number of non-Communist journalists. Saigon has been plagued by a near epidemic of theft and lawlessness. At first the Communists were quite casual about patrolling the streets; soon they began making rounds heavily armed and only in groups of at least...
...Japanese, left Saigon on a chartered flight, taking with them film and delayed dispatches. Last week the regime made another move against the foreign press corps. Authorities ordered three U.S. reporters-George Esper of A.P. and Paul Vogle and Charles Huntley of United Press International-along with Photographer Dieter Ludwig, a West German freelancer for TIME and CBS, and four Japanese correspondents to leave the country. Now only about 20 correspondents from abroad remain, including the last three Americans-A.P.'s Frances Starner, U.P.I.'s bureau manager, Alan Dawson, and Don Rodill, a freelancer writing for Long...