Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dmitrievich Bogolyubov, 64, Russian-born German national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...
Like thousands of other German youngsters, Hilde Speer, a button-bright 16-year-old student at Heidelberg's Elisabeth von Thadden School, would like nothing better than a chance to go to an American school. She saw her chance last spring in a notice in the local paper: a number of German youngsters were going to be sent to the U.S. as exchange students. Hilde wrote a letter stating her reason for wanting to go: "I want to become acquainted with the people [of the U.S.], the poor as well as the rich, the land, the big cities...
Schumacher dragged himself from a sickbed to harangue the southwest voters by radio. Adenauer's Housing Minister Eberhard Wildermuth died of a heart attack in Tübingen after strenuously pleading the government's cause. From ancient Heidelberg to the Black Forest and all through the area known principally for its vacation resorts, its cuckoo clocks and its conservative politics, other leading ministers and oppositionists campaigned tirelessly...
...sophistication was a solid gold toothpick with earspoon combined, its recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches or backaches. There were "liquor cures" (i.e., knockout drops), and Sears' remedy for the "morphine and opium" habit. Pajamas were first carried for men only and its rouge would "never be noticed...
Near the end of World War I, a promising Swiss diagnostician named Max Picard left the University Hospital in Heidelberg and gave up the practice of medicine. He deserted his profession because he felt that doctors, fascinated by the mechanics of medicine, were losing sight of their patients as individuals. To get a better perspective, Picard studied philosophy, finally moved to the tiny village of Caslano, Switzerland. Now 63, he has lived there ever since, quietly writing and studying, in a one-man effort to diagnose the spiritual troubles of modern times...