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DIED. ROD MILBURN, 47, genial 1972 Olympic gold medalist who won the 110-m hurdles at Munich; from falling into a railcar full of caustic chemicals while on the job; in Baton Rouge...
...hard stuff began. With Walsh, Williams and other members of the building committee, Meier went all over the world studying museums and monuments, from the Certosa near Florence to the Glyptothek in Munich, from the Villa Lante in Bagnaia (a distant memory of whose watercourse is preserved in one of the Getty's gardens, designed by the California artist Robert Irwin) to key American museums, such as the National Gallery in Washington and the Yale Center for British Art. "This," says Meier dryly in his memoir Building the Getty, to be published next month by Random House, "generated a great...
...about 1987, humor could do little to hide the estrangement. MAINHARDT GRAF NAYHAUSS, a German aristocrat, remembers a party in the Waleses' honor at the German embassy in London. "Diana wore a long red dress," Nayhauss said in a German tabloid. "Around midnight the Munich In crowd was rocking like crazy... Di [was] really with it. She seemed to like the informality of it all. Out of breath from the music, she asked the disc jockey to play something slower. She turned to go back out on the dance floor." But there was a "certain sadness about her," Nayhauss adds...
...suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...
DIED. JOHN AKII-BUA, 47, Uganda's gold-medal-winning Olympic hurdler who, for all his leggy might, could not scale the obstacles erected by Idi Amin's brutal regime; of undisclosed causes; in Kampala, Uganda. At Munich in 1972, Akii-Bua dashed to a record-breaking finish and joyously leaped over the hurdles a second time. He was later barred from international competition by the government and driven into exile...