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DIED. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, 92, British wizard of aircraft design who invented the "bouncing bombs" used to destroy German dams along the Ruhr, a World War II exploit celebrated in a book and the film The Dam Busters; in Leatherhead, England. Sir Barnes' career began with his World War I work on a British counterpart to the German zeppelin, included his development of the first swing-wing jet aircraft and hollow aerofoil design, and ended in 1971 with his efforts to improve upon the supersonic Concorde, a machine he considered rather primitive...
...caption with your picture of "the thriving, reconstructed Essen of today," belching smoke and blanketed by ugly smog should have said: "The Ruhr city of Essen in ruins...
...30th anniversary, they might see through the clear glass of the present that the postwar achievements of West Germany he listed are already far more than anybody could have expected. Even those Europeans who quibble with Bonn's economic policy know that the country that turned the Ruhr into the peacetime turbine of Europe should be more than capable also of becoming more outward looking and less tightfisted, given time. Many are willing to bet on it, and therefore to welcome the growing West German power. "What disturbs us is to have a power vacuum in Western Europe," says Italian...
...enlightened policy by the Western Allies after World War II that reinforced Teutonic diligence and determination. In 1945 Hitler's thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf were reduced to jagged piles of debris. The Allies' "carpet" bombing had blighted the industrial heartland of the Ruhr Valley and the transportation facilities of the whole country. It was a country with millions of homeless refugees, without leadership, and with a heritage that had to be rebuilt from scratch...
DIED. Ernst Wolf Mommsen, 68, West German industrialist and former aide to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf. A successful 25-year veteran of the Ruhr steel business, Mommsen in 1970 joined then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...