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...plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany...
...meeting, sponsored by West Germany's Paulist Society for Christian lay men, included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...
...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...