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Before World War II, Bayerische Motoren Werke was famous as a maker of motorcycles and racing cars. During the war, the Munich plant produced airplane engines for the Junker bombers and for Hitler's jet fighter, the Messerschmitt ME 262. In 1947, after the U.S. Army stopped using BMW's shops to repair its tanks, the company started making motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company...
...possibility that the chute might actually take off, taking the rider along with it, adds spice. That, in fact, is precisely what happened to Colorado State Junior John Junker three weeks ago. Gus helped too much, lofted Junker into a tree, fracturing an elbow...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany...
...strange, reluctant commitment. As the small, far-off war grew bigger and closer, it stirred little of the fervor with which Americans went off to battle in 1917 or 1941. The issues were complex and controversial. The enemy was no heel-clicking Junker or sadistic samurai but a small, brown man whose boyish features and emaciated body made him look less like the oppressor than the oppressed. The U.S. was not even formally at war with him. Nor at first could Americans be sure that divided, ravaged South Viet Nam had the stomach or stability to sustain the struggle into...