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...Luke C. Platzer...
...student at a college, not an animal in the zoo," said Luke C. Platzer '00. "If they're here to see the Hall, let them do it other than at mealtimes...
...remarkable specimen," says Werner Platzer, an anatomist at Austria's University of Innsbruck. "Scientists have never before had an . opportunity to examine such an ancient body." But the Iceman has provided posterity with more than just his body; he literally died with his boots on. His glacial grave has yielded pieces of his clothing, weaponry and other equipment. While most remains of ancient humans are found surrounded by funerary objects (if anything at all), the Iceman "was snatched from life completely outfitted with the implements of everyday existence!" exclaims Markus Egg, the German archaeologist who is overseeing the delicate process...
...bickering has seriously delayed examination of the Iceman's internal organs and analysis of his DNA, tests that could shed light on his diet, immune system and cause of death, and even help identify his closest living descendants. Innsbruck University anatomist Werner Platzer feels frustrated and bewildered: "The Italian ministry has told us that we are not allowed to destroy a bit of the body," he complains. On the other hand, "they say that if no research is carried out, the body must go to Rome for research purposes." As head of the anatomical-research project, Platzer has decided...
...reads the-dedication of a book presented to President Eisenhower last week by Austrian Ambassador Wilfred Platzer. The book: an Austrian government study of how U.S. aid, a total of $1.4 billion since 1948, enabled Austria to recover from the ravages of World War II and postwar Russian plundering, and build out of the wreckage one of free Europe's most thriving economies...