Word: helgoland
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...education for 540,000 youngsters. - Fighting disease are 42 free-world medical teams, including Cuban refugee doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent its hospital ship, Helgoland; and Canada donated equipment for ten 200-bed portable emergency hospitals. G.I. medics and Navy corpsmen, resting from battle duty, have treated hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and there are 21 U.S. military medical teams ministering full time to civilians; by the end of June, 39,700 patients were being...
...another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have...
...Europe shivered in the worst winter of the century. "Our temperature is lower than at the North Pole," one Moscow taxi driver told his fare proudly and accurately (Moscow thermometers registered -36.4° F., as opposed to the recordings of -7.6° at the pole). On Helgoland, in the North Sea, chilled islanders gathered together 8,000 cubic meters of firewood to build a gigantic bonfire...
...supporters of this theory is Professor Rudolf Drost of the Helgoland Ornithological Institute. During the war he saw flocks of birds fly "turbulently" when hit by radar beams. Crows disconcerted in this way took several minutes to regain flyability...
...unforgettable glimpses of a foeman starting to smoke, the inescapable sounds of the typewriter-tapping of tracer on fuselage and rudder. Captain Heinz Knoke, winner of Nazi Germany's coveted Rit-terkreuz and the youngest squadron commander in the Luftwaffe, pinpoints his most vivid memory high above Helgoland, one July day in 1943. In I Flew for the Führer, Knoke tells how his Messerschmitt squadron loaded up with 500-lb. fragmentation bombs and climbed high above a formation of U.S. Flying Fortresses. To break up the deadly formation, which few German fighters could penetrate, Knoke was experimenting...