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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...
...Halten Sie! young Clowns!" the Mentor loudly advised, bringing the Group to a speedy stop. "Let us not," he went on, waving an Arm at the Top of the Hill, "storm this Symbol of our noble Cause like so many Son's of Whores and a d-mned Rabble!, We," he continued, puffing out his Label, little Beard suggesting, "can do this thing in the grand Style. Don't storm on Foot! I'll supply a thundering Herd of wide-winged Pegesi upon which we can fly against the Citadel like an avenging Horde! And my way, at the least...
...grants for scholarly and scientific research: Edmund I. Gordon, follow of the American Schools of Oriental Research, who will study the history of the ancient Middle East based on cuneiform tablets excavated at Hi-Amarna, Egypt; Robert W. Meevs, assistant professor of Music, musical compositions General A. Halten, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, automatic information storage and retrieval; Jack M. Stein, producer of German, relation between text and musical setting in 18th and 19th century German song; and Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of of Chemistry, phosphate enters
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