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...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
Commissioner Ray Girardin, they usually come from the bottom 25% of their high school class. U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Charles Wahl adds that most policemen he has worked with had "harsh and punitive fathers...
...final will be an all-Leverett affair with Charles Delony, last year's runner-up, fighting Ralph Dittman. Delony registered the day's only knockout yesterday when he downed Dieter Wahl of Kirkland House with a right cross in the second round...
...environmental tests in hothouses and in the fields. The most promising 100 samples were sent to the U.S. Agriculture Department; along with 4,000 resistant selections from other countries they were subjected to 264 and other strains of rust. From the fierce competition, a strain of wild oats that Wahl had found near Israel's Mount Carmel emerged the winner...
Against the day when 6-105 and other thriving strains fall victim to new mutants of rust, Wahl is already working with Israeli Geneticist Daniel Zohary to breed fungi-resistant grain strains that will, like plasma in a blood bank, be immediately available for sowing in areas hard-hit by rust epidemics. They have already found new wheat and barley strains that are apparently resistant to rust. Says Wahl: "We must build up a bank rich in strains so that we are never again caught by a scavenger like...