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...Nixdorf," read advertisements that have been appearing in West German news papers. By such direct promotion, a stripling in the computer field has established its own European image among such veterans as IBM, Machines Bull and Siemens. With only 700 employees in a factory in the Westphalian town of Paderborn, Nixdorf still sells two out of every three small digital computers bought in West Germany. At the annual Hannover fair, Nixdorf's first-time display became a magnet for Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth, 780 were classified as "serious customers...
...council will convene at a time when the church is in the midst of transition, attempting to plot a true and vigorous course through intellectual and social turbulence. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn, one of Germany's most articulate advocates of change in the church, argues that Catholicism has finally come to the "end of the Constantinian era." In a world of permanent revolution, he argues, the church must think in universal terms and abandon a number of concepts that governed its past. Among these are the belief that the alliance of temporal and spiritual powers is "natural...
...latest rockets cannot penetrate Heaven, and the Devil is full of uranium. These are some of the up-to-the-minute theories of small-fry theology turned up in a survey of sixto ten-year-olds conducted by Professor Theophil Thun, 59, of the Padogogische Akademie (Teachers College) in Paderborn, Germany. Professor Thun was less interested in theology than in charting the juvenile sense of sin, and his findings indicate that at six as well as at 60, sin often seems whatever is most fun-such as "scuffling and kicking and throwing stones" and "sticking out my tongue at people...
Theological speculations along these lines, hotted up by space talk and Europe's recent rash of flying sauciness, are bemusing continental Christian thinkers. Professor Eduard Stakemeier, Roman Catholic theologian at the Philosophical-Theological Academy at Paderborn, Germany, feels that planetary missionizing would be unwise...
...support a church. But since World War II, German and Swedish technicians, students, servants and refugees from Red regimes have built the community up again. A year ago the Dublin Lutherans applied for a pastor of their own. To Hans Mittorp, 45, it meant leaving his precious parish at Paderborn, Westphalia and going to a land whose language he hardly knew. When he finally decided, he says, "I took it joyously...