Word: hesse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he was captured by the British 28 years ago, Nazi Germany's onetime Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has steadfastly refused to see his wife and son. It was beneath the dignity of a high official, he explained, to permit his family to see him in prison. Now 75 and suffering from a duodenal ulcer, Hess was transferred in November from Berlin's Spandau prison to a British military hospital. There, in a room with guards but no bars, Hess last week finally was reunited with his wife Use, who runs a tiny...
...Hess, whose only other visitor has been his lawyer, was imprisoned by the Allies after he parachuted into a Scottish cow pasture in May 1941 on what he claimed was a mission to end the war. Later sentenced to life imprisonment at Nürnberg for "preparing aggressive war," he entered Spandau in 1947, and for the past three years has been its only inmate. The Western powers have long wanted to release him on humanitarian grounds. The Soviets have refused, largely because the four-power prison authority is one of Moscow's last official footholds in West Berlin...
...late Princeton geologist Harry Hess provided an imaginative answer to the puzzle. Refining a rough idea suggested a generation earlier, Hess proposed that the earth's mantle is really a giant convection system. Like hot air in a room, he suggested, material heated by radioactive elements in the earth's interior slowly rises out of a relatively fluid layer of the earth's mantle called the asthenosphere. This lava surfaces at the mid-ocean ridges; hence, the higher water temperatures. As it flows away from the ridges, it hardens into a more rigid layer called the lithosphere...