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...initial $500,000 investment. Sponsors "don't get that involved" in shaping the curriculum, says Zeiss, because "we have our own accrediting standards." In recent months, Zeiss has announced other joint ventures with local companies. The results: Introduction to Motorsports Pit Crews, Pit Crew U and the Cox Schepp Construction Academy. So far, the San Francisco proposal doesn't appear to have generated serious corporate interest...
...Dieter Schepp, a nephew recently arrived from East Germany, was making his first appearance in the great pyramid in Detroit on the night of Jan. 30, 1962, when he suddenly began losing his grip on the balance pole. There came a terrible cry: "Ich kann nicht mehr halten "(I can't hold on any more). Then the pole slipped, Dieter fell, and the whole pyramid of Wallendas came apart in midair, some clinging to the wire, others plunging to the concrete floor. Dieter and another man died there; Karl's adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist...
Last week in Detroit, the Wallendas formed a six-man pyramid topped by a young lady in a chair. At the pyramid's base was young (23) Dieter Schepp, nephew of the troupe's leader, Karl Wallenda. He had escaped from East Germany only last year, was in his first week as a member of the troupe. Trying to improve his grip on the heavy balancing pole, he tossed it into the air. He grabbed it again. Then he shouted, "I can't hold it," and lost his balance...
...pyramid toppled. Three men crashed to the ground and lay sickeningly still. The other three men caught the girl and clung to the wire, holding her by her wrists until an improvised net was spread out below. Of the three who fell, two were killed, including Dieter Schepp. The third, Mario Wallenda, had a fractured skull and was not expected to live...
Lessons I to 6. In Giessen, Germany, Firemen R. Bornschein, Werner Schepp and Helmut Glund were sentenced to four months for arson after admitting that they set fire to six straw piles "to show the new fire chief what it means to be a fireman...