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DIED. Philip Scharper, 65, editor in chief at Sheed & Ward (1957-69), then co-founder of Orbis Books, who brought U.S. readers the works of influential European and Third World Roman Catholic thinkers, including Hans Kung, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, Liberation Theologians Leonardo Boff and Gustavo Gutierrez; following a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
After disappearing from Germany in 1949, Mengele is believed to have gone through Italy to Argentina, where he took up residence in Buenos Aires and began to represent the family firm, Karl Mengele & Sons, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment (the firm is still run by Mengele's family in Gunzburg). Around this time, he is said to have met Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry officer, who seized power in Paraguay in 1954. When a Frankfurt court issued an order for Mengele's arrest in 1959, he fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition...
...about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit to Madrid's School of Dramatic Arts and Dance, she was persuaded to join some young pupils in the flamenco. Said...
...report, which addresses issues ranging from financial aid to graduate student social life, focuses specifically on ways to improve interaction between the central GSAS administration and the individual academic departments, said Karl Strauch, Leverett Professor of Physics and chairman of the committee which produced the report, in an interview with the Crimson several weeks...
GWTW still has a way to go to become the all-time videotape best seller. That record is held by Jane Fonda's Workout ($59.95), last week's No. 3, which in three years has raked in more than $40 million. Boasts Court Shannon, a vice president of Karl-Lorimar Home Video, which produced the exercise guide: "Jane Fonda has greater endurance than Scarlett and a longer-lasting beauty." Perhaps, but tomorrow is another...