Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain Jeff Campbell demolished the competition in both the mile and half mile events, and Gary Schmidt also flew to a first-place finish in the quarter-mile, with a dramatic come-from-behind-you-saw-it-in-the-movies-once finish...
...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
...only races Princeton won were the 880 (by .2 seconds) and the three-mile. Gary Schmidt triumphed in the 440 and tri-captain Jeff Campbell took a close mile in 4:14.4. The Crimson quarter of Henry Hagerty, John Chafee, Jeff Campbell and Gary Schmidt beat Princeton's barbershop singers in the mile relay with a 3:28.8 clocking...
Phony Soldiers. Little by little, though, the fun seemed to pall. Sigi complained of sleeping badly and rushed back from his vacations in Austria and Italy. One day, after a routine check uncovered a $125 error in one of his books, a tense Schmidt tooled off to the nearest police station. There he told an incredible story: he had invented thousands of phony troops, put them on the battalion's books, and then drawn their very real pay-some $500,000. Since he had logged in his first "recruits," many of whose names Schmidt picked out of the phone...
...German military was still blushing last week as Schmidt, found guilty of embezzlement by a civilian state court in Bonn, began serving a 3½-year term. "You can be sure we've tightened up the system," snapped a Bundeswehr official. Still, few could help admiring the sergeant's ingenuity. Said a Defense Ministry aide: "It was a masterful trick." As for getting the money back, the government can forget it. When he was arrested, Sigi was flat broke...