Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman developed shoes that weighed only 4 oz., compared with 6 oz. for the old "lightweights." The difference might seem minor, says Bowerman, "but you know what it meant in a mile race? The runner was lifting 200 pounds less." Now a German firm has produced a 2½ oz. shoe...
...coalition's smooth operation is the unlikely friendship between a onetime Nazi functionary and a former Communist underground agent. Kiesinger seldom lets a morning go by without telephoning Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' No. 2 man, who is Minister for All-German Affairs...
Crisis of Identity. Holding the coalition together may be harder in the months ahead. In his new role as C.D.U. chairman, and with polls showing that a remarkably high 65% of the German public likes the way he is running the country, Kiesinger has a strong hold on his party. But Wehner faces trouble with the Socialists. An increasing number are complaining that the C.D.U. is getting all the credit for the Grand Coalition's success and that the Social Democrats are so overshadowed by Kiesinger that they are losing their identity as a party...
West Germany still has trouble keeping her planes in the air. Last week the crash toll of F-104G fighter-bombers-known as Starfighters-rose to 70 when a German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
...West Germans blame the Starfighter crashes, in which 37 pilots have perished, on faulty maintenance and the fact that most of the pilots are inexperienced. To overcome the problems, the Bonn Defense Ministry is now farming out maintenance on the 1,450 m.p.h. planes to such skilled German firms as Messerschmitt, is sending pilots to the U.S. for training. Just in case, it has decided to install better ejection seats so that fewer lives will be lost in the falling Starfighters...