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...both firms had developed into respected sporting-goods companies with small but loyal followings in the U.S. But it would take the next generation of Dasslers to take Adidas' distinctive three-striped shoes and, eventually, clothing to an unheard-of level of international success, outpacing Puma. Adi's son Horst did an end run around the rules preventing Olympic athletes from accepting compensation by giving them free shoes. It worked: at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, more than 70 of the track medals were won by athletes wearing those three-striped shoes. As a result, Horst was able to establish himself...
...second half of the play consists entirely of Max and Horst (Peter C. Shields ’09) carrying cinderblock “rocks” back and forth from one side of the stage to the other with no apparent purpose...
...Horst, Shields in particular maintains a witty, sarcastic outlook on the dire situation. His quips—the only moments of comedy in the second act—provide an effective counterpoint to the more lighthearted humor of the play’s beginning...
...getaways that transcend mere luxury stock. Investors have greenlighted more than 30 other super-high-end projects in the past three years, according to lodging consultant Bjorn Hanson of PriceWaterhouse Coopers. The challenge? "It's about creating a luxury that is truly designed around the individual's needs," says Horst Schulze, former president of the Ritz-Carlton. "To accomplish that is an art." Schulze launched the more exclusive Capella hotel line in Austria and Ireland this summer and is planning outposts in Jakarta, Dsseldorf and Cabo San Lucas...
...what if we could actually see this founding father of modern science in the throes of discovery? Horst Bredekamp, a professor of art history at Berlin's Humboldt University and author of a new book entitled Galilei der Künstler (Galileo the Artist), says we can. He and other experts in Germany and Italy have concluded that five watercolor sketches of a mustard-colored moon drawn in a printer's proof of Sidereus Nuncius are by Galileo's own hand. The first printing of the legendary treatise included copper engravings of the moon believed to be based on different...