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Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, 80, who is well remembered for his short-lived stint as Chief of State in Germany after Adolf Hitler's death, is not happy about his place in history. Interviewed in the German magazine Die Welt, the semi-deaf "Big Lion" of the Nazi war fleet talked about what he considers his real accomplishments: "I was able to prevent 1,850,000 German soldiers from falling into Russian hands. Historians even claim 3,000,000 were saved. My position would be different were I not considered the political successor of Hitler...
...dressed funny." Lonely, he spent most of his time in trouble at school, hanging out at the roller rink and getting into fistfights. At 18, Oates joined the Marines, because "I figured if I didn't, I'd end up in jail." After a two-year stint as an airplane mechanic, he landed at the University of Louisville. He drifted in and out of courses in business administration, anthropology and English. Introduced to drama when he read Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Oates tried a student theater group. "After that, I didn...
...test-ban treaty. As a former professor put it: "Ellsberg just got drawn into Viet Nam, the same way McNaughton did, the same way all of us did." He became so drawn in that he seriously wanted to re-enter the Marine Corps, in which he had done a stint as an officer. He once gloomily said: "If I went back into the corps, they'd never give me a company anyway. Once they learned that I wrote speeches for McNaughton and Robert McNamara, they'd have me writing speeches for some general." He consoled himself by inserting such stridently...
Farber went on to become chairman of People for Auto Insurance Reform-a state-wide citizens' group in New Jersey which he presently heads-following a three-year stint as Hughes's executive assistant...
...Michigan, where he is working on a Ph.D. after earning his M.A. at the University of New Mexico. Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua, he is taking a spectrographic kit, which he designed to measure the energy that foods produce. His concern is "human ecology": how communities obtain and use their food. Making no apologies for his work's lack of popular relevance, he says simply...