Word: walther
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese shun guns, they adore models of the real thing. Last year model-gun manufacturers turned out a $25 million arsenal of 600,000 ersatz weapons, among them exact replicas of the Luger PO8, the Walther P38 and the Mauser Military 7.63 mm. According to law, all barrels of metal models were colored yellow or white so as to discourage holdup men from fooling the public...
...book Clearing the Air, Schorr tells of a luncheon in Paris during which Paley congratulated him on a CBS documentary about East Germany. "Its dramatic climax," writes Schorr, "showed Walther Ulbricht, the East German Communist leader, upbraiding me for my questions and finally storming out of the room in full view of the camera. 'What I admired most,' said Paley, 'was the coolness with which you sat there and looked at him while he was yelling...
...employ a natural converter to get energy directly from sunlight. Last week Cell Biologist Walther Stoeckenius, 54, with colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco and a team from NASA'S Ames Research Center, announced that a purple pigment found in red bacteria from the Dead Sea and salt flats round the world also directly converts sunlight into energy. While the pigment is less efficient than chlorophyll-only an estimated 10% of light energy is converted-it is more stable and easily extracted from the bacteria...
...other original inmates, Walther Funk, head of the Reichsbank, Czechoslovakia's Nazi Boss Konstantin von Neurath, Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, and Admirals Erich Rae-der and Karl Doenitz were released either after completing their sentences or because of failing health...
Scared and Shaking. Surgeon Alan H. Walther first said he would perform the operations, but after consulting with 50 fellow urologists, he balked. "Is it really a free decision when their only alternative is probably life imprisonment?" he asked. Moreover, though the operation, known medically as a bilateral orchidectomy, is a relatively simple procedure in which the testicles are removed from the scrotal sac, there is uncertainty about its efficacy. In one study of 244 castrates in Norway, only a small minority reported a lessening of their illegal sex behavior...