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...would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
Nevertheless, people have been calling Horowitz a genius--a boy genius, to be exact--since he was seven, and gurgled over the air in Morse Code, the youngest ham radio operator in the country. The talk continued as Horowitz went through Summit High School in New Jersey and Harvard, building gadgets in his free time like refrigerators with no moving parts and advanced telescopes. And when he began dating a tall blond nursing student named Carol Grodzins a few years ago, colleagues often approached her at parties and whispered, as if sharing a delicate secret, "Paul is such a genius...
Horowitz has always found much of his amusement in dreaming up gadgets, off-beat electronic gear that no one has built before, whether by choice or by oversight. As offshoots of early hobbies, he built a teletype for ham operators that transmits in Morse Code, and a metronome that, with a few adjustments, clicks out a syncopated beat. Lately, he seems most tickled by a small box he and two undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note...
...with the drafting of Defensive Tackle "Mean" Joe Greene, Noll gradually put together the best defense in football. The Steelers' front four, the most ferocious in the league, flattened quarterbacks 52 times this season with their savage pass rush. The team's linebackers, led by bruising Jack Ham, are almost as intimidating. Against the powerful Raiders in the A.F.C. championship game, Pittsburgh yielded only 29 yds. in 21 running plays...
...other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic performances. Indeed, British Actor Alec McCowen, whose humorous timing derives from Benny's, called the old pro "one of the greatest comedic actors in the world...