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...DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s he designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; of lung cancer; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s, Stern designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...When Rudi and Adi Dassler began hand making athletic-training shoes in 1924 in their family's laundry room in Herzogenaurach, Germany, they had no idea their efforts would someday lead to a full-fledged factory, Dassler Brothers Sports Shoe, producing more than 30 styles for 11 sports, including the first tennis sneaker. By 1936 the brothers were driving suitcases full of their coveted shoes to the Berlin Olympics, where they would persuade American Jesse Owens to sport their product. (He eventually won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.) Business boomed, and by the start of World...
...member are completely ignoring the will of their citizens. There were moments in European history when people's freedom was severely threatened. But now it seems there is no freedom to speak of. Decisions are made over the heads of European citizens without any respect for their opinion. Rudi Verstraeten Sint-Niklaas, Belgium...
...1960s gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade of peace and love seemed a bitter joke. But it is not because of their faults that the ideas of the '60s have lost some salience. It is because of their success. Rudi Dutschke, the German '60s student leader, coined the phrase "the long march through the institutions" to define his generation's ambitions, and by the time Fischer was sworn into office in 1998, such ambitions had been consummated beyond anything of which Dutschke could have dreamed. Everyone knows that some of the great...