Word: germans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wernher von Braun, 57, director of the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Transported to the U.S. by American intelligence officials in 1945, along with 126 other German scientists who had been working on the V-2 rocket at the Baltic base of Peenemünde, Von Braun has directed development of rocket-launch vehicles from the earliest Redstone. Von Braun helped develop the ablative heat shield, which dissipates the searing heat of reentry by flaking off in harmless fiery pieces. His Huntsville group can also claim credit for what has become known in the space agency as "cluster...
...unanimous vote, the Bundesrat, the upper house of the West German Parliament, last week passed a law clos ing the legal loophole through which as-yet-undetected German war criminals would have escaped punishment. Under the old law, war criminals who had not been caught and indicted by next Dec. 31 would have been immune from future prosecution. The new law renders them liable to prosecution for another ten years. It also lifts entirely the statute of limitations on genocide, thus subjecting the perpetrators of the most heinous Nazi crimes to possible punishment as long as they live...
...dumped Penn in the first round. The freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...
...other American entries similarly failed in the final round. Seattle's Bill Tytus, the best United States entry in the Diamond Sculls lost badly to East German Jorg Bohmer, and the Trinity College varsity crew, undefeated in its first year of competition, fell to A.S.R. Nereus, a fine Netherlands club, by a length...
...city named Troy once existed. Yet he maintains that none of the archaeological findings to date even remotely supports anything like the Homeric account of Helen's abduction and the Greeks' revenge. To begin with, says Berve, there is the site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace and the Trojan King's treasure...