Word: kg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel's popular additions is a glassed-in swimming pavilion in the garden, navigable even when winter snows pile up six feet deep. But the main attraction remains the cuisine, a fact that prompted the Riesterers to equip every bathroom with a scale-thoughtfully set back 1 ½ kg. (roughly 3 Ibs.). ¶ San Domenico Palace in Taormina, Italy. A converted monastery, one of its cloisters 600 years old, the San Domenico has been a hotel since 1896. Part of its appeal is the monkish ambiance, part the views of Mount Etna and the Sicilian seascape. Though rooms...
...agents boarded an express truck delivering baggage to a building in Hoboken, NJ. When two men later left the building with the bags, the agents arrested them, recovered 687 kg. of marijuana and 202 gm. of heroin. Baggage checks taken from one of the captives led to caches of narcotics at railroad stations in Poughkeepsie and Albany, N.Y., and Philadelphia. >- In April 1963, a narcotics agent in Turkey wormed his way into the confidence of a band of international traffickers headed by the former mayor of a Turkish city. The agent arranged to buy 18 kg. of morphine base...
...astonishment of all West Germany, the Willy H. Schlieker KG company, which embraces four of Schlieker's 23 firms and operates his highly automated Hamburg shipyard, admitted that it could not raise the cash to meet $3,500,0001n debts due at the end of July. The firm appealed to a Hamburg court for a form of temporary receivership aimed at avoiding bankruptcy. In part, Schlieker's difficulties simply reflected the troubled state of the whole German shipbuilding industry, which is increasingly hard pressed by competition from state-aided shipyards in other countries. But Schlieker's real...
...pointed to a $50 million backlog of shipbuilding orders and offered to pay 50% of its debts within two years. If the court and creditors agreed to receivership on these terms, the company would continue to operate under a state-appointed administrator. There was also some hope that Schlieker KG could avoid receivership entirely by working out a rescue operation through the banks. During the week, the Dresdner Bank arranged to beef up Schlieker's capital base by $1,000,000, and Munich Private Banker Rudolf Münemann, another of Germany's postwar millionaires, hustled...
...pretty brunette graduate student sat on a metal stool, with both forearms on armrests attached to tables. Her left arm was free, but her right forearm was strapped to the rubber-cushioned rest, and she gripped a handle connected to a chain-and-wheel tackle from which hung 4 kg. (8¾ Ibs.) of lead. "Hold it as long as you can," ordered the thin, white-gowned woman pacing behind the test setup last week in an enclosed balcony of Lathrop Hall, women's gymnasium of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The coed, Marilyn Grabin, gritted her teeth...