Word: nde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like many of his Western Bund friends, refuses to watch the two U.S.-made westerns currently appearing on West German TV, Gunsmoke and The Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...
...rocket-powered wagon, and by the time he was 21 he had outlined the design for a moon rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun was considering a missile that could reach New York City...
...early 1945, as Russian armies approached Peenemünde, Von Braun and many of his staff fled to Bavaria and surrendered to U.S. troops. The Americans recognized the value of their prisoner. Within a few months, he was working under contract to the U.S. Army at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. By 1950, he was placed in charge of guided missile development at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala. In 1960, Von Braun, who had since become an American citizen, was named director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville and charged with building...
...death!" At 11:45, while Swedes watched the tense proceedings on their TV sets, two giant explosions rocked the embassy. As flames shot through the top-floor windows, five figures quietly climbed out of a window at the side of the building. When Swedish police shouted "Hände hoch!" (Hands up), the five meekly surrendered. In the meantime the hostages scrambled to safety. Later police found the bodies of the sixth gang member (apparently killed by the explosions) and the embassy's economic counselor, whom the terrorists had murdered. Next day the Swedish government returned four...
...left have been careful to avoid even the suggestion of kinship with the Communist world. "This is a nationalist, popular and Christian revolution," said Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado in a Lima speech marking the second anniversary of the military coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall, when Bolivia's Ovando seized power, a delegation...