Word: freiburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feet at Top Speed. This novel means of protection was discovered almost accidentally by German Entomologists Karl Linsenmair and Dr. Rudolf lander of Freiburg Zoological Institute. In flooded gravel pits alongside the Karlsruhe-Basle autobahn, the two men were studying the orientation mechanism by which the Stenodus does its navigation...
...Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
...tall, gangling youth with the Kaiser Wilhelm mustache was a model of self-discipline at the University of Freiburg. Limited to a small monthly allowance of $21, he was never known to squander or borrow a pfennig. At night, nodding over his law books, he would take off his shoes and socks, immerse his feet in a tub of cold water to stay awake. He never fought a duel, but he was no square. He pledged a fraternity, acquired the "Biername" (drinking nickname) of "Toni," and at frothy functions would bang his stein on an oak table in unison with...
...Switzerland after they allegedly put pressure on the son and daughter of Dr. Paul-Jens Goercke, a West German electronic-guidance expert employed at Military Factory 333. As Swiss police told it, the agents persuaded Heidi Goercke, 25, and her brother Hans, 21, to cross the frontier from Freiburg, Germany, and warned them that they must talk their father into coming home from Egypt or else he would face "serious" trouble. Eavesdropping on the conversation, forewarned Swiss detectives tossed the Israeli operatives into jail, charged them with coercion and operating illegally on behalf of a foreign state...
...Path Found. As a child in Freiburg im Breisgau, in southern Germany, Rahner often jolted his devoutly Catholic parents. He was a mischievous boy, seemingly devoid of promise, got such disgraceful marks that his father, a scholarly Latin teacher, once threatened to take him out of school. But he suddenly reformed, climbed to the top of his class. In 1922, he joined his elder brother Hugo as a member of the Society of Jesus. "Hugo's entering I can understand," said his father. "But Karl...