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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...
...vous (for everyone else). The same rules apply for first names. Many cultures have developed wonder fully elaborate forms of address to delineate relationships, to mark their progress. Russians, for example, can open successive doors of intimacy through a marvelously tender procession of diminutives: Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivan'ich, Ivan, Vanya, Vanyushka, Vanyushenka...
...part of his upcoming memoirs, Encounters and Insights, the first installment of which appeared last week in the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Lyndon Johnson, writes Brandt, was basically a bother. Johnson came to Berlin as John Kennedy's Vice President in 1961, and where Kennedy proclaimed, "Ich bin ein Berliner, "Johnson was more the ugly American. "On a Saturday evening, we had to get shoes from a store which had long been closed because he liked mine so much," recalls Brandt. "Since his feet were different sizes, he needed two pairs. On Sunday...
...about the assassination in the early 1960s of U.S. President Tim Keegan. Condon unaccountably gives Keegan a younger half brother named Nick Thirkield who uncovers the plot afterward, and although the shooting occurs in Philadelphia, not Dallas, President Keegan travels to Berlin during the blockade and tells cheering crowds, "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...children, the chauffeur's children and various neighbors for some lessons in the pool at the Ponti villa outside Rome. Cipì didn't much like the water -it got in his eyes and ears -and at one point he called out to his mother, "Ich liebe dich, but can I come raus?" The result of a week's garden parties: Cipì not only has new friends but he can also float...