Word: braun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weary from shooting, Baylor sank 24 more points to put a rousing finish on the most spectacular scoring spree in pro basketball history. Baylor's 71 points totally eclipsed the N.B.A. record of 64 that he himself had set a year ago. Knick Coach Carl Braun had only one word to describe Baylor: "Fantastic...
...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...
...Stars(Charles H.Schneer; Columbia), which opened in Washington at a benefit attended by the First Lady and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, aims to tell the life story of Wernher von Braun, the German-born rocket expert who has become the best-known U.S. missileman. The picture starts with some noisy experimentation conducted by a teen-aged Von Braun (somewhat less than convincingly portrayed by a middle-aged Curt Jurgens), then cuts to Peenemunde, a remote marsh in western Prussia where the Wehrmacht in 1937 established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only...
Unhappily, the second stage of this cinema vehicle fails to fire. Instead, it explodes in a splatter of platitudes about the moral dereliction of the scientific community-personified in Von Braun. The moviemakers, nervous perhaps about possible public reaction to Von Braun's Nazi record and the responsibility he shares for the V-2 attacks on London, have leaned over backward to stress his war guilt, with the unhappy result that the hero comes off as a jolly accomplice in mass murder, an affable fanatic who cares everything about rockets and nothing about the people they happen to kill...
...turning point!" On the soth, the Russians were just a block away. Hitler had already had his favorite dogs put away, and now he and his new wife Eva Braun went to a room, he to shoot himself, she to take poison. During a lull in the bombardment, their bodies were taken above ground, doused in oil and burned...