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...during the period that Ford was occasionally Gould's boarder, the elder swimmer won three gold medals, a silver, and a bronze at the Munich Olympics...
Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade...
Since word came last summer that Dr. Josef Mengele was dead, a man named Alois Brunner, once top aide to Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann, has headed the list of living Nazi war criminals. Brunner has long been rumored to be living in Damascus, Syria, and last week the Munich-based magazine Bunte disclosed that its reporters had found him there. At age 73, it said, Brunner is missing most of his fingers and is half blind as a result of two letter bombs sent to him by unknown parties in 1961 and 1980. He boasted to Bunte...
...perhaps best revealed by the way each learned about his award. Hauptman, married to a schoolteacher and father of two daughters, had just finished his daily hour of swimming at a YMCA pool. Karle, whose three daughters are also scientists, was flying home from a scientific meeting in Munich when the pilot announced the news. "We are honored to have flying with us today America's newest Nobel prizewinner," he said. "And he doesn't even know it yet." --By Natalie Angier. Reported by George Borrelli/Buffalo
Alte Achter: the 1972 U.S. Olympic eight. Made up primarily of Harvard orwers, this boat holds a reunion each year at the Head to relive the experiences the crew shared at the Munich Games...