Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herbert Kappler, December...
...note on the door, nurses at the hospital did not discover until late the next morning that the man in Room No. 2 was missing. Instead of the frail, 105-lb. cancer patient, they found a wig and a pillow propped up in the rumpled bed. By that time, Herbert Kappler, 70, a notorious Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence in Italy, was long gone. He and his German wife Anneliese, 52, who had spirited him out in the suitcase, turned up in West Germany the same day and were believed to be safely ensconced in the gray stone...
...death at age 85. When his will was opened, Ray turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire in two. Bunker, Herbert and Lamar took over management...
Bunker and Herbert Hunt last week joined the pioneers of a new tactic in company takeovers. In March, Great Western United Corp., which the Hunts control, bid $15.75 a share for 35% of Sunshine Mining Co., a major silver producer, but Sunshine management never advised its stockholders whether to accept or reject the offer. So Great Western now has lowered...
That point was underlined by Herbert Scoville Jr., a former Pentagon special weapons project chief and former deputy CIA director. Scoville, whose objections apply not only to the neutron bomb but to all tactical nukes, wrote in the New York Times: "Our security depends on strengthening, not breaking, the barrier between nuclear and conventional conflicts. The neutron bomb should be put back on the shelf, and we should instead concentrate on developing ways of deterring aggression by conventional means...