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...have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home, the investigators found seven or eight letters apparently mailed by Mengele from Brazil between 1972 and 1978. They also discovered two more recent letters from Wolfram and Lieselotte Bossert, an Austrian couple who had moved to Brazil in 1952. These letters implied that Mengele was dead...
...Bosserts had known of Mengele's true identity since 1972, they accepted the man they say was the aging Nazi almost as a member of their family. In 1977 he moved into a dilapidated, two-bedroom house owned by the couple in the Sao Paulo district of Eldorado Paulista. Wolfram Bossert described Mengele as living a lonely life, supported by his family in West Germany...
Winners ranged from Poet and Novelist Robert Penn Warren, 76, to Caltech Physicist Stephen Wolfram, 21, who received his Ph.D. in physics at age 20. Others included Soviet Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky, 41; American Indian Poet Leslie Marmon Silko, 33; and Bell Laboratories Scientist Douglas D. Osheroff, 35. Warren will receive the maximum $60,000 a year, while young Physicist Wolfram gets the minimum, $24,000. The reason for the difference is that annual fees to fellows are on a sliding scale, based on their age. An extra $800 is added to the stipend for each year...
...Germany's largest producer of iron ore and ships, fourth largest coal producer, and seventh largest steelmaker, Salzgitter is in just about every problem industry in Germany. "The only thing we are missing to complete the whole scale of weak industries would be a textile plant," says Wolfram Langer, 51, State Secretary for the Treasury and new chairman of Salzgitter, who has the task of reforming the company...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Wolfram Fischer, professor of economics and social history, Free University of West Berlin, on "Germany and the Great Depression." Emerson Hall...