Word: heidelberger
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...Mask of a Lion, Author A. T. W. Simeons shows that the life of a leper is not always as hellish as Govind had supposed. Simeons is a London-born, Heidelberg-trained doctor who spent about 20 years in India. Now a consultant at Rome's International Hospital, he has written a novel that makes amateurish fiction but has the fascination of its grisly material. If the book is read simply as a knowing, colorful report on the lepers' way of life, its inadequacies as a novel can be comfortably ignored...
Armed Services. Missouri's Dewey Short, a widely educated hillbilly (Harvard, Heidelberg, Oxford) who has a fund of good stories, a long record of eccentric voting, especially on military affairs, and hardly a friend in the Defense Department...
...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...