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This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Hermann Staudinger, 72, of Freiburg, West Germany, who is considered the father of the study of macro-molecules. When he started his work, many organic compounds were known to contain large groups of atoms, but these were considered mere mechanical clumpings of smaller molecular groups. Dr. Staudinger showed that they are true molecules, their thousands of atoms hooked together in definite patterns...
...Crayfish. Father Jakob Freud was a just and kindly wool merchant, but his principal weakness, woolgathering, kept the growing family poor. In 1859, when Sigmund was three, father Jakob abandoned his son's birthplace, the Moravian town of Freiburg, and went after better business first in Leipzig and then Vienna. Freud so hated this uprooting that he detested Vienna ever after. To travel, to leave Vienna behind, became a lifelong passion. But one of the greatest love-hate paradoxes in Freud's life is that while regularly railing at Vienna, he stuck closely to it. For 47 years...
...their selections: Louvain's Professor Joseph Coppens discussing the knife-edge Roman Catholic distinction between literal and allegorical interpretations of the Bible; Father Clifford Howell, an English Jesuit, giving his suggestions on how laymen can better participate in the Mass; Historian Ernst W. Zeeden of the University of Freiburg reviewing current theological developments in Protestantism...
Born in Wuppertal in the Rhineland, Mrs. Schumacher was raised in Freiburg near the Swiss border. An accomplished pianist, she studied at the Conservatory in Munich. In 1935, she decided that "Mr. Hitler and I did't agree too well" and joined the thousands of Germans who waited in neighboring countries for the fall of a regime few believed could last. Mrs. Schumacher spent three years in Italy, largely in Naples and in Sicily, but in 1938, the Anschluss and the hungry eye turned toward Czechoslovakia brought complete disillusionment. Recognizing that Hitler clearly would last and that war would follow...
...this year the first performance of the new film by Veit Harlan were to be given in several West German cities. Students in those cities worked out resolutions in protest against the performance of the film (its name is "Hanna Amon"). This resolution is endorsed by the University of Freiburg by all major student groups: the student council, the Christian-Democrat, the Social-Democrat student associations and by the international organization ISSF (German section of ISMUN...