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Michael W. Eckenberg '95, a Students at HarvardAgainst Racism and Ethnocentrism (SHARE)coordinator, said he thinks the group's outreachconversations often prove valuable, as studentsbring out concerns in an atmosphere ofconfidentiality...
Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered...
Long before the ambulances arrived, Photographer William Eckenberg of the New York Times was scuttling back to his office with what he knew was a picture editor's dream. One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads. Police dragged the pair apart before other photographers penetrated the crowd...
...Photographer Eckenberg get his scoop? The Times said he simply got there first from Columbus Circle. But every other cameraman on the job told his editor another story: that lucky Eckenberg was late on his way to the Circle, was passing the store just as the shooting occurred...
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