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...Time and Life Building in Manhattan. Derived in large part from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
...decreed. "They say I'm emotional, and I am. I don't know what I'd do if I saw people around." So when Paar came on, there was no studio audience. All that could be seen was a tieless Jack and his German Shepherd, Leica, seated midway back in the taping theater...
...think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
...swarm of angry locusts, the helicopters descended on the soccer field at Dongxoai. Out of them poured Vietnamese rangers, who were greeted by a hail of Viet Cong fire. Three fell within a minute; the rest bolted for a ditch by a road. But one hulking figure, a Leica camera bobbing about his neck, threw himself against a hut and started snapping pictures. In the bloody melee, he took some memorable ones: a ranger as he was hit, his hand clutched to his stomach; a Viet Cong, his head popped up over a bunker to stare with surprise...
Whether it was a Mercedes or a Minifon, a Leica or Löwenbräu, Germans have always been proud to a fault of their craftsmanship, and until two years ago no one ever dared to suggest openly that a product's quality was really not always wunderbar. Then along came Journalist Waldemar Schweitzer with a brand-new brand-conscious magazine called DM (for Deutsche Mark). DM tested and graded consumer goods for design and durability, published ratings ranging from sehr empfehlenswert (highly recommendable) down to a damning nicht empfehlenswert. DM's circulation has soared...