Word: nauheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elaborate Precautions. Dr. Dombrowski got interested in ancient life when he noted that the warm, allegedly curative brine that comes to the surface near his laboratory at Bad Nauheim was full of living bacteria. They could not originate in the soil, he decided, because they are present in the water when it is still 600 ft. below the surface. Besides, they were a type whose modern representatives live in the sea. And along with the bacteria, the brine carried fossil pollen from trees that grew in the Permian...
Geologists know that the Bad Nauheim brine gets its salt from the thick Kali and Zechstein deposits 40 miles away, so Dombrowski next looked for bacteria in the salt itself. Guarding carefully against contamination by modern bacteria, he dissolved samples of Zechstein salt in sterilized nutrient broth. After a few days, he examined the broth, found it to be teeming with lively bacteria...
Died. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, ' 74, unrepentant Nazi, one of Hitler's top military strategists and his last commander in chief in the West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British...