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Jennifer L. Greenstein, Juliet E. Headrick, Suzanne Petren Moritz, Philip M. Rubin and Dhananjai Shivakumar contributed to the reporting of this article...
...California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion...
...First Herb Brooks 1976 Innsbruck, Austria Fourth Bob Johnson 1972 Sapporo, Japan Second Murray Williamson 1968 Grenoble, France Sixth Murray Williamson 1964 Innsbruck, Austria Fifth Eddie Jeremiah 1960 Squaw Valley, CA First Jack Riley 1956 Cortina, Italy Second John Mariucci 1952 Oslo, Norway Second Connie Pleban 1948 St. Moritz, Switz Fourth John Garrison 1936 Garmish, Germany Third Albert Prettyman 1932 Lake Placid, NY Second Alfred Winsor 1928 Not Represented 1924 Chamonix, France Second William Haddock 1920 Antwerp, Belgium (Unofficial) Second Ray Schooley
...million to support a lavish life-style. He bought about $5 million worth of paintings, an $830,000 Manhattan condominium and a $2 million vacation house in posh East Hampton, Long Island. Bloom, who also owned a Mercedes-Benz and an Aston Martin convertible, went skiing in St. Moritz, paid up to $500 for a bottle of wine and bought a $195,000 diamond-and-platinum necklace that he said he intended to give to "the woman I marry." Says a former girlfriend: "David Bloom was obsessed with possessions...
...pioneering candid camera work of Erich Salomon. In the late 1920s, Salomon electrified photojournalism with his available-light pictures of European diplomats in unposed situations -- stuffed shirts in unbuttoned moments. Eisenstaedt applied Salomon's methods to less official surroundings, in ballrooms, at the opera, or among strollers at St. Moritz. His strengths were the chief strengths of photography generally: not the ceremonial but the serendipitous, not oratory but anecdote. He was the kind of photographer who could become so entranced by the sideline * doings at a royal wedding that he would forget to get a picture of the bride...