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Tibor Grau still has much to learn. The son of a Jewish banker named Von Grau, a furtive homosexual, a teacher and philosopher of sorts, he survives wartime exile in Stalin's U.S.S.R. by following the principle: "You must lie to survive. But what is a lie?" The tale of the frogs keeps reappearing in new forms. Military Interpreter Grau tells it to some German war prisoners as a parable of how an arrogant team of jumping frogs lost at the Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with...
...jurors had begun deliberating around 3 in the afternoon, and it was now around 6:30 p.m. Prosecutor Warren Von Schuch was worried. As he later put it, "The longer a [jury] panel is out, the worse shape we're in." And so he proposed a deal to Seigler's attorneys: their client would plead guilty to first-degree murder and robbery and receive a 60-year prison term, with 20 years suspended...
...Operation Exodus, relies heavily on tips from manufacturers and shippers to stop unlicensed exports from leaving the country. The effort has so far netted 573 seizures valued at some $45 million and led to the arrest of Kessler. U.S. Customs has been proudly touting this record. Says Commissioner William von Raab: "Individual seizures aren't that important in themselves. But they're a measure of what I call the screw-'em-up factor, and right now we're really screwing them up." The FBI, the CIA and the Commerce and Defense departments are also increasing their...
...banking crisis, when the German stock market was forced to shut down. Some officials saw the failure of AEG-Telefunken as proof that West German companies, which had once been among the leaders in high technology, were now falling behind American and Japanese firms. Said Andreas von Bülow, Minister of Research and Technology: "At the moment we are clearly behind our rivals, and if the applications in industry of microelectronics are not considerably speeded up, our technological standing will soon be lost...
...Wolf Von Eckardt...