Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first rocket-pressurized with a bicycle pump and launched from a local dump-failed to fly. Some of his later models flew only too well, taking off from sites in Germany and occupied Holland to impact on London with horrifying effect. But if Wernher von Braun, who died of cancer last week at 65, is remembered by future generations, it will probably be for his postwar achievements. As one of the most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching...
...examinations during the ordeal (his dean ordered him advanced anyway). The Moluccans, he said, had treated him reasonably well, and despite low moments, morale among the passengers had remained surprisingly high. The running joke among the group, he said, was that their endless train "ride" must mean that Holland had become a huge country...
Painful Crawl. The idea behind the battle was simple enough: drop 35,000 British and American paratroopers in Holland, behind the German lines in the fall of 1944, and ask them to seize and hold six bridges leading to Germany proper until ground forces could get to them, a distance of 64 miles. Together the forces could then smash into the Ruhr, wipe out what was left of the enemy's war production, and everybody would be home for Christmas...
...Death of Classical Paganism, by John Holland Smith (Scribner's; 280 pages; $12.95). A British novelist and historian, Smith declares himself a "pagan" and expresses his regret that the Christian God ever overwhelmed Jupiter and his court of divinities. Most historians believe that the classical gods were already moribund when Christianity arose; Smith argues that they were alive and well until they were "assassinated" by the new faith. The early Christians' Jupiter-is-dead movement, he concludes, was the worst of "all the crimes committed in Christ's name" because it impoverished Western culture...
...tragic victims of Tenerife, there were no ifs. For their surviving families, the ifs were only agony. The reality came home at week's end in brown wooden boxes, flown to Holland and Delaware's Dover Air Force Base in cargo jets. Now it was up to the professional investigators to deal with both the ifs and the realities of aviation's worst disaster...