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...chill of a Berlin winter's night, a man bound by tape to a bench in Wilmersdorf park struggled to free himself. Eventually, the man escaped his bonds, walked out of the park, found a telephone booth and called his wife. "Hello, Marianne. This is Peter," he said. The caller was Peter Lorenz, chairman of West Berlin's Christian Democratic Union and the party's candidate for mayor of the city. Six days earlier, he had been kidnaped by a gang of militant young anarchists, whose daring act startled all of West Germany (TIME, March...
...case, merely decent shots got a hearty round of applause and the great shots brought the hose down. Spectators continually wandered around the press area trying to find the broadcast booth and one woman wanted to look into the booth because she heard Billie Jean and her husband Larry were there...
...begun in a sense by one madman, John Brown, and ended by another, John Wilkes Booth, as Foote says. At any rate, it introduced modern America. Perhaps it was a sardonic premonition that after Lee and Grant met at Appomattox, souvenir hunters wrecked the house where the surrender was signed...
Telephone Booth. Early Egyptian and Indian sufferers treated certain skin diseases with some success by swallowing a powder made from a local plant and exposing themselves to sunlight...
...gemeines Krankenhausen in Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...