Word: immelmann
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What he yearns for is a therapeutic attachment for his gadget so that he can cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics...
...tribute to German Aviator Max Immelmann, best remembered for the looping flight maneuver that bears his surname...
World War I Ace Max Immelmann earned two, as did Corporal Adolf Hitler, and now U.S. teen-agers are buying them by the gross. Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer's emblem and high school...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith was willing to give it a go-around anyway-"to epitomize the spirit of the moment." Back and forth along a Salisbury thoroughfare he pedaled and puffed on his new bicycle. Then, with a wrenching left turn that resembled a sideways Immelmann, he braked to a halt. "My cook-boy has a better bike than this," guffawed Ian. "Good old Smithy!" laughed the office workers who were watching...
...greatest adventure began with the sudden conviction that he could fly.* For a while he just practiced Immelmann turns around the dining-room chandelier, in his nightshirt, but before he was done he had created an international situation, and he promised Mully never to fly again...