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...personal life until she died in 1951. Intimates expected the shock of her loss to kill him, but he continued his work with undiminished vigor. By his casual count, he had earned 24 honorary degrees, 10 decorations. 32 awards, and belonged to 33 scientific societies. Last week, while visiting Aachen, the city where he made his mark in the Kaiser's Germany, the old professor died of a heart attack. He was 81. He had lived with aviation since its infancy and had woven the bright thread of his thought through every strand of its history...
...nightmare started in the West German town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in 1954, when laboratory chemists synthesized the drug for the firm of Chemie Gruenenthal GmbH. After three years of testing with animals, thalidomide was judged so safe that it was approved for over-the-counter sale, with no prescription needed, throughout West Germany...
...reinforced concrete studio in Paris, with its glassed front wall, "a manifesto" in itself, and harked to Ferret's belief that "decoration always hides an error in construction." At Behrens' studio, Jeanneret was apprenticed with the self-effacing son of a poor masonry contractor in Aachen. His name: Mies van der Rohe, who is now the U.S. mas ter of the spare glass-and-steel skyscraper. At length Jeanneret opened an office in Paris "in a beastly little street, seventh floor, over a yard, in the servant's room...
...airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push on to South America and the rest of the world. Eventually, a traveler will be able to rent a car from Aachen to Zanzibar simply by phoning his nearest Hertz or American Express office, travel agent, airline or shipping company...
...shop in time, once had his name put up on the plant's "lazy list" for being late. After his father decided that he should study steelmaking, he was shipped off to the Munich Polytechnikum -his first departure from home-later finished up at Aachen, Germany's toughest technical college. In 1936 he entered the firm as a deputy director and in 1938, according to Nurnberg trial records, joined the Nazi Party. That same year he entered Krupp's artillery-construction division, where he directed the design, sale and development of weapons until 1943, flying throughout Europe...