Word: frankfurter
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...Connor took a job as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo, Calif., while John, whom she had married in 1952, finished law school. When he joined the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, the two lived in Frankfurt, West Germany, for three years, where she worked as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Corps. They returned to the U.S., moving to Phoenix in 1957, when the first of their three sons was born. All the children attended a Jesuit-run high school in Phoenix (Sandra O'Connor is an Episcopalian, her husband a former Roman...
...production some time between 1986 and 1990, the People's Car of tomorrow will combine a revolutionary diesel engine with other fuel-saving technologies that designers hope will get 75 or more m.p.g. in combined city and highway driving. A test model will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September. At present, U.S. law requires automakers to have a fleet average fuel economy of only 22 m.p.g., which will rise to 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. The VW Rabbit diesel, with 42 m.p.g. city and 56 m.p.g. highway, is the most fuel-efficient car in production now available...
...investment strategists on loan from Merrill Lynch, the largest U.S. brokerage house, and Baring Brothers, the venerable British merchant bank that 178 years ago helped finance the Louisiana Purchase. Top-level outside advice also flows in from senior officials of Morgan Guaranty, London's National Westminster Bank and Frankfurt's Deutsche Bank...
Hoechst A.G. of Frankfurt, an international chemical firm, is giving MGH the money over the next ten years so that the hospital can establish a new department of molecular biology and support basic research in that field. In exchange for the grant, Hoechst will have the right to profit from the research results before other companies gain access to the findings and to obtain exclusive licenses to develop to develop commercial products using the research results. MGH, however, will own any patents developed under the agreement...
...against a tide of hard-drug use that has threatened to engulf both German youth and U.S. military personnel. In 1980 West German police seized a record 263 kilograms of heroin in raids across the country. Last year a sweep of one 15,000-strong U.S. military installation near Frankfurt resulted in the capture of $4 million worth of mostly marijuana and hashish and arrest of 146 U.S. soldiers. Another operation in northwest Germany netted 44 drug offenders, 18 of them U.S. soldiers. Military police seized 15.3 grams of heroin, 805 LSD tablets and 8,990 amphetamine pills. But they...