Word: heinemann
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...their second synod (the first was in 1949), leaders of the Evangelical Church in Germany, representing 42,100,000 Protestants in the East and West zones, rejected the fiery Rev. Dr. Gustav Heinemann, 55, for a second term as president. Heinemann, who violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
Forethought & Combat. Officially, Douglas calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought...
...Says Heinemann: "We analyzed psychologically and physiologically just how a man reacts under combat stress, just how much he can really attend to . . . If he's going to skip some things, there's simply no use putting them in the cockpit to confuse him further." The cockpit of the A4D is as simple and uncluttered as a fledgling pilot's first trainer, though Heinemann shies away from the words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those...
Three to One. In production Douglas estimates that the Hot-Rods can be built three times as fast for half the cost of their gadget-heavy sisters. Says Heinemann: "That increases this nation's potential by just that much-there are simply a lot fewer man-hours and a lot less material going into each A4D." The Navy is so impressed that it has already ordered Douglas' new bomber into production though its first flight is still weeks away...
...born into the world like a child"). Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. But it was not until the book was ready for the presses that Photographer Man got his contribution from Pablo Picasso. This week the book (Eight European Artists, Heinemann, Ltd., London) was out with a message for posterity from the world's greatest painter. The message: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ...