Word: klaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, British atomic spy who was released from prison three months ago, flew to East Germany, where he was rewarded with a job as deputy director of the East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics; and Greta Keilson, 53, widow; he for the first time; in East Berlin...
...East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics chose a new deputy director at a salary of $20,160 a year. German-born, British-trained, with unique experience in his field, he was the obvious man for the job: Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...
...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...
Brains & Money. Though the growing company needed Reiner's inventive genius and Klaus's gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains...
...company's success has enabled its two unlikely partners to go their separate ways in style. Klaus, the son of former (1913) World Middleweight Boxing Champion Frank Klaus, spends his leisure hours water skiing and practicing ballet with his wife and two daughters (his two sons prefer other sports). Reiner likes to battle constituted authority, from the Defense Department to the Los Angeles city fathers. He employs a full staff of lawyers to aid him in his causes. His pet project: because he deplores the state of education in public schools, he recently spent $300,000 to build...