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Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically transmitted muscle power was not the best solution, Professor Siegmund Weil and Technician Otto Häfner of Heidelberg University set out to develop a light, small and more efficient substitute. This week, after seven years of research, they were busy teaching amputees how to use their invention: an artificial arm operated by pressurized...
...Americans are so naive," said the Heidelberg professor as he snifted his glass of Niersteiner Domtal '53 and indeed we are. Professor Doktor H. G. Glaubich, director of the university's foreign program, was at his usual position of honor at the venerable oak table in the Schnitzelbank inn, drinking, wheezing and expounding. The small group of students clustered about the master were breathing in the new German philosophy as blandly as they downed the latest Rhine vintages. And the eagerest of these were the "Amis...
...followed his finger. On the way I fell in behind three students en route to a second-hand bookstore. They talked something like I did 25 years ago at Heidelberg and Ohio State, but slightly modernized...
Citations from Luther. A trim, apple-cheeked young law student at Heidelberg 30 years ago, Red Hilde was first stained with the party dye when she met and married a fanatical Communist who was later killed by the Nazis. Red Hilde became a brandy-swigging, chain-smoking harpy and Germany's most dedicated fighter against family and religion. Appointed vice president of the Soviet zone Supreme Court, she presided over political-show trials. In three months of 1952 alone, she handed down two death sentences, eight terms of life imprisonment and 109 years at hard labor. In court...
...High Commissioner is in frequent contact with U.S. Army heaquarters several hundred miles down the Rhine at Heidelberg, since his position is still partly that of a military governor. But the functions of his office have been significantly diminished in other respects...