Word: erwin
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...renown in physics, thanks in part to the presence of such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography...
Died. Desmond Young, 74, British author who, as a World War II press officer in North Africa and later as a German P.W., was so mightily impressed by the style and tactics of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps that in 1950 he wrote a bestselling biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, which stirred a whirlwind of controversy over its profuse praise for the German field marshal; of a heart attack; on the British Channel island of Sark...
...Liberal Republican John H. Reed, 45, Governor of Maine for almost seven years, won nomination for a new four-year term with a solid (56,000 to 38,000) primary victory over conservative State Legislator James S. Erwin, also 45. Chairman of the National Governors' Conference, Reed faces a stiff challenge from the Democratic nominee, Secretary of State Kenneth M. Curtis, 35, but stands to benefit from U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's presence on the G.O.P. ticket. In her quest for a fourth term, the redoubtable Mrs. Smith has a little-known opponent-the Democrats apparently figuring...
...Erwin Dain Canham, L.H.D., editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor and new president, the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Tough-minded but temperate, he authenticates the essential spirit of the encomium-a Christian gentleman...
...Died. Erwin Piscator, 72, German director-producer and theatrical gadfly who in the 1920s made Berlin's theater ring with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...