Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freelance photographer, and his wife Leonore, 39, a plumpish woman who was the personal secretary of the director of the ministry's administrative Zb Section-where the files contain personnel records, incoming dispatches, the complete Allied contingency plans for the defense of Berlin, and the West German diplomatic code. Leonore had access to everything. One by one, she stuffed papers in her purse and took them home at lunchtime for a quick snap from Heinz's ready camera. In five years, the couple delivered copies of more than 1,500 secret documents to the Russians. The ministry...
Leonore, apparently, had done her spying mostly out of love. West German investigators discovered that Heinz, a trained Russian agent, had been sent to Bonn in 1959 with the specific assignment of wooing a highly placed Foreign Office employee; Leonore turned out to be his pigeon. When her police questioners told her why her husband had married her, it was more than she could take. She hanged herself in her cell at Cologne's Klingelpütz prison...
...sense organs, the eye - immensely complicated as it is-is probably the best understood. Since the German biologist Franz Boll discovered that a chemical change takes place when light enters the eye, scientists have worked out a fairly complete map of the mechanics of vision. Last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, custodian of the Nobel Prize in medicine, jointly awarded the 1967 prize to three of the most important eye cartographers of the present generation: the U.S.'s George Wald and Haldan Keffer Hartline and Sweden's Ragnar Granit...
...Luther on its cover; inside, an article notes that it is now the consensus of Catholic theologians that "Luther was a profoundly spiritual thinker who was driven to revolt by worldly and incompetent Popes." In Europe, Catholic theologians will be among the handful of observers allowed by the East German government to attend Reformation Week ceremonies at Wittenberg...
...disk jockey. The Emperor, who likes to strip to the waist before he assaults the microphone, is teaching the scream scene to other disk jockeys in France. As for the rest of Europe, well, all the Emperor says is that he isn't mastering Spanish, Italian, German and Russian for nothing...