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...Gustave Weigel. is a ranking expert on ecclesiology and ecumenicism, and a consultant to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Father Godfrey Diekmann, of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota, is a distinguished Benedictine liturgical scholar. Swiss-born Hans Küng of the University of Tübingen is one of the most exciting Catholic thinkers to emerge from Germany since World War II, and one of the select few official theologians at the Council. The books of these men have all been published with episcopal imprimaturs, testifying to their doctrinal orthodoxy...
...teaches theology at the University of Tübingen in West Germany, and is regarded by many as the most promising theological talent to appear among German Catholics since World War II. Born in Switzerland, he went to Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, became full professor at Tübingen when only 32. His suggestions for Catholic renewal are published in The Council, Reform and Reunion (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), which contains approving introductory messages by two cardinals. Among Protestants, President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary praises its liberal, ecumenical spirit, and San Francisco's Episcopal...
Study of the eyes of beetles is already paying off. A group of scientists at Tübingen, Germany, found that a beetle's compound eyes can measure the speed of a moving background with random shadings on it. After finding out how the beetles do it, the scientists set to work building an instrument on the same principle to measure the ground speed of airplanes. It didn't need all of the compound eye, only two facets of it simulated by photocells watching the ground from the nose and tail of the plane...
Silence & Dancing. Romano Guardini was born in Verona, Italy, but he was taken to Germany at the age of three, where his Italian diplomat father was posted at the consulate in Munich. He grew up in Mainz, attended the University of Tübingen, where he first began to specialize in biology and physics. But, as he wrote later, "the deeper I went into the study of science, the more I became convinced that there was not the full answer." His parents reluctantly gave him permission to study for the priesthood; he was ordained in 1912, received his doctorate...
...soft-spoken Swabian who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (he once taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...