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...WUERZBURG, GERMANY: Army medic Michael New was discharged for refusing to wear U.N. insignia on a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. In a case that had captured the imagination of conservatives who opposed putting U.S. forces under U.N. command, New had argued that he had not taken any oath to serve under U.N. commanders. But the court said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...Rate Morality. Born in Wuerzburg, Neckermann started in business at 21 by buying a large lot of lamps and lampshades, assembling them himself, and selling them below the market price. Enraged competitors put him out of business by getting a court ruling that it was illegal to sell at cut-rate prices. Leaving Wuerzburg, Neckermann went off to Berlin...
...Graustein '10, of Cambridge, for research in Mathematics at Bonn; G. L. Kelley S. B. '07, of Somerville, for research in Chemistry in Europe; R. H. Keniston '04, of Cambridge, for research in Romance Languages in Europe; P. D. Lamson '05, of Worcester, for research in Pharmacology at Wuerzburg; G. H. McCaffrey '12, of Roxbury, for research in Government in Europe and America; J. A. Spaulding '12, of Tewksbury Centre, for research in German in Germany; R. C. Staebner '11, of Willimantic, Conn., for research in Forestry in the United States; W. P. Thompson A.M. '12, of Toronto...