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...Giotto spacecraft and Halley's comet raced toward each other last week at a closing speed of 155,000 m.p.h., the tension at the European Space Agency's control center in Darmstadt, West Germany, became palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that...
When the British air force raided the German city of Darmstadt on Sept. 11, 1944, the fires set by the incendiary bombs were so intensely hot that, of the night's 12,300 mortalities, the bodies of many of those who were trapped in underground shelters shriveled to the size of dolls. "A crying boy in an air force uniform came out of the cellar, a covered enamel bucket in his hand," an anonymous survivor remembers. "It contained his parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described...
Once again the media, particularly television, have churned up a politically correct, Diana-like atmosphere of nostalgic national pseudo mourning. LEONARD HILL Darmstadt, Germany...
...real reason why it should be in Germany at this moment." --Peter Bull of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, sniffing at a claim that a death mask residing in Darmstadt is the only authentic image of the Bard of Avon...
...positive or not, Magic Johnson is a great role model. There is a lot that we can learn from his life." ERIC TCHEPANNOU Darmstadt, Germany...