Word: essen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the computer-guided rollers of Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...fabled Essen-based Krupp industrial empire, which supplied munitions for Germany's military forays for more than a century, was owned entirely by the Krupp family in 1967 when near bankruptcy forced the Krupps to relinquish control. But ownership still remained exclusively German, with 95% of Fried. Krupp Hüttenwerke AG, the steel-producing operating company, in the hands of a foundation. Last week, the Iranian government and the management of Krupp announced that Iran would acquire a fourth of Hüttenwerke's shares-at an estimated cost of $100 million...
...equally impressed with the functioning of the astronauts. Suspecting that potassium loss may have been responsible for abnormal heart rates in two of Apollo 15's crew members, NASA Director of Life Sciences Dr. Charles Berry had placed the Apollo 16 astronauts on a diet rich in the essen-salt before and during their mission (TIME, May 1). The precaution appears to have paid off. None of the astronauts experienced more than minimal and predictable heart irregularities. Furthermore, postflight examinations revealed that their potassium levels were normal and that no other physical problems had arisen...
...friends and personal belongings. The Children of God are the storm troopers of the Jesus Revolution (TIME cover, June 21), its most forceful and most criticized zealots. Though the membership numbers only about 2,000 worldwide, it is vigorous and farflung: about 60 colonies are scattered from Seattle to Essen, Germany, from Jerusalem to Viet Nam. A London colony founded a few months ago has already sent missionaries to Stockholm, Oslo, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam and Brussels. Liberia is the next target...
...Essen-Steele, West Germany