Word: braune
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fervently hope that Wernher von Braun, on reading the eulogy about himself in the Feb. 17 issue of TIME, will read farther-to the story on Anne Frank in the same issue. Perhaps her story, or that of the innocent millions like her who died in the inhuman, barbaric extermination chambers of the Hitler concentration camps, might prick his conscience-just a little...
...premature on this, but I would like to nominate Dr. Wernher von Braun as TIME'S Man of the Year for 1958. Thanks be to God that he is on our side...
...congratulate the American scientists who built the American satellite under the guidance of Wernher von Braun. Of course we know that Von Braun was educated in Germany and built V-2 rockets for the Nazis, thus killing thousands of innocents...
Yesterday. Huntsville, on rich bottomland along the Tennessee River 90 miles north of Birmingham, with high hills to the east and west (Wernher von Braun lives on one of them, which has been dubbed Sauerkraut Hill, and is building a home on the highest, Monte Sano), was founded in 1805 by John Hunt, a Revolutionary War militia captain. It was Alabama's first incorporated town (1811), with the first incorporated bank (1816), site of the state's first constitutional convention (1819); from Confederate War Secretary Leroy Pope Walker in Huntsville came the 1861 order to fire on Fort...
...lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun's old German rocket hands, as concertmaster...