Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the frustration of dealing with the intractable demands of hijackers, President Reagan began his press conference last week by taking a stern stance on a more tangible issue: the safety of future U.S. air travelers. He called for putting plainclothes guards on U.S. planes flying abroad and advised Americans not to travel through Athens International Airport. Within 24 hours the Senate appropriated $2 million to more than triple the number of marshals (even though many experts question their value) and Pan Am suspended flights to Athens. The measures, though tangential to the current crisis, reflected the rising concern...
...that the 25-year hunt for Mengele was over. The weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte fleshed out details of the Nazi fugitive's sojourn of roughly 18 years in Brazil with an annotated collection of photographs, supplied by Mengele's 41-year-old son Rolf. In response, the rival weekly Stern ran six pages of photographs chronicling the same period of lonely exile. Gerald Posner, a New York lawyer who has pursued the Mengele story for four years and who had flown to West Germany from Sao Paulo to check the veracity of the Bunte documents, expressed no doubts whatsoever...
...returned to Brazil in 1979, soon after Mengele drowned off a beach at Bertioga during an outing with the Bosserts. At that point, the younger Mengele reported, he collected from the Bosserts most of his father's effects; the rest, he thought, the couple had destroyed. Last week, however, Stern announced that it had bought from the Bosserts several hundred photographs of Mengele, along with three tapes of conversations, about a dozen notebooks and assorted letters...
...revelation raised the competition between the two rival magazines to new heights. Bunte announced that it would turn over all syndication fees from the Mengele story to Auschwitz survivors and to descendants of the camp's victims; Gunther Len Schonfeld, head of Stern's news department, told TIME that the generous-seeming gesture was "a show of hypocrisy." Privately, some editors at Bunte accused Stern of having stolen its cache of Mengele materials. Journalists at Stern complained that Bunte had violated copyright laws by running pictures owned by the Bosserts...
Ironically, the U.S. may have lost its standing as the world's prime outdoor neon user. That honor may now go to Japan, for elaborateness if not footage. Stern, the U.S.'s foremost neon historian and owner of Let There Be Neon, a Manhattan studio that designs for clients such as CBS and Sony, has seen international interest change even America's use of the form. Says he: "Times Square today is there for the Japanese chairman of the board who looks up from his limousine and feels that his product has arrived in the U.S. market...