Word: siegert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...secret formula (along with trademarks) at $43 million, and many other companies feel that the worth of their secret is greater than the net value of their companies. Sales of such products are sizable, while near-miss competitors fail. At the Angostura office in Port of Spain, the Siegert family has an elaborate display making that point. It shows more than 100 brands of bitters that over the years tried to match the real Angostura in taste and bottle, and in each case failed and faded away...
...slate almost impervious to drills and pitons. "They look like ants crawling up a building," reported one pilot. "But they wave and seem all right." Cautiously, the climbers eased their way through the "great cathedral"-a double-faced outcropping of rock. At last, after 16 days of suspended existence, Siegert reported: "We feel solid ground beneath our soles." He was on a ledge, 300 ft. below the summit, that measured just 1 ft. wide...
...17th day of their ascent, the three men stumbled up a sloping snow field, into blinding sunlight, and fell tearfully into the arms of Italian guides who had gone up Cima Grande's easy south wall to meet them at the summit. "We want to sleep," mumbled Siegert. "It was rough...
Gerd Uner was sent back to Munich for amputation of several frostbitten toes. Rainer Kauschke was suffering from an "acute rheumatic disorder." Team Lead er Siegert complained of uncontrollable trembling in his arms and feet. It will never be so hard again, said one Italian alpinist. "The Germans blazed the vertical trail-and their pitons are still in the rock. This summer, you will see climbers do the same thing in a single...