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...Apologies. A native of East Prussia (now part of Poland) and a wartime student in a Berlin Jesuit Gymnasium, Barzel soon impressed his fellow Ministers with his command of his portfolio. He broadcast regularly to East Germany and negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after...
...RANSOM TAYLOR, PH.D...
...named George H. Weyerhaeuser, 39, as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Norton Clapp, 60, who moves up to chairman. Weyerhaeuser, a great-grandson of the founder of the huge forest-products firm, made news at age 9, when he was kidnaped for $200,000 ransom. He was released after seven days, three kidnapers were caught, and most of the money was recovered...
...Although there was no Sloan car [Feb. 25], at least one of G.M.'s vehicles was named after its inventor: the Oldsmobile, named after Ransom Eli Olds, and first produced in 1887 as a three-wheeled, steam-powered horseless carriage. In 1900, the "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile was developed at the Olds Motor Works. It was some time later that the Oldsmobile became associated with...
...Transit Authority, the final decision will probably be made by another judge of the State Supreme Court. This did not prevent Say pol from taking the Transit Authority to task for "yielding and submitting to illegally extorted demands" by the un ion and permitting it to obtain a heavy "ransom from eight million citizens" of New York City. "Submission today," the judge went on to say, "to this un lawful misconduct under the guise of civil disobedience, grinding into the dirt the civil rights and liberties of the city's millions, is craven servility and could lead to disaster...