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Many senior career switchers are out to change the world as well. Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...
East Germany's Barbara Petzold glided to victory in the women's 10-kilometer cross-country ski race in 30:31.5 to give her country the lead in Olympic medals with a total of 12, including three golds. The Soviet Union is second with 11 medals, and leads the Games in gold with six. The United States follows with four medals total...
Calderazzo's sojourn soon ended at Ullo's San Fernando Valley home. The FBI's two other witnesses, Robert Zander, 28, and Craig Petzold, 32, say that they were working at Ullo's place when they heard screams from a guesthouse. Minutes later, they said, Ullo summoned them to the house, where they saw Calderazzo's body. They testified that Ullo gave Zander a .22 automatic with instructions that it be delivered to Connor. Then the pair were ordered to dump Calderazzo's body in the desert, where it became fodder for scavenging animals...
...told that if he managed to post the sum he would have to report to a U.S. marshal twice a day, every day. At week's end Ullo was still behind bars. That was surely a relief to Witnesses Connor, Zander and Petzold. All are in protective custody after alleged death threats by Ullo. They have more reason than most to remember that two victims of the .22-cal. hitters were FBI informants-and four others were potential prosecution witnesses...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Cosi fan Tutti overture; Schumann, Trio no. 3 in G--opus 110; Lo Presti, The Masks; Petzold, Sonata no. 2 for Brass; Sibelius, Peleas et Melisande; Dohanvi, Quintet for Pf. and strings; Haydn, Symphony 180 in D; Schubert, Deux Marchas Characteristique; Khrennikov, Symphony no. 1 in B flat; Handel, Suite for Harpsichord...