Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...conquest of polio were named by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
...Stuttgart has completed its attempt to provide an acoustically perfect shape with its $2,600,000 Liederhalle. The result is a windowless, concrete, ear-shaped main auditorium (capacity: 2,000) with as many curves as a Stradivarius. On the right wall hangs a cluster of boxes, below a buttonhook-shaped balcony that begins at orchestra level, becomes a raised balcony on the back wall. Says Co-Architect Adolf Abel: "The layout not only makes more sense acoustically but it helps to relax the audience...
...Leader. Last week by unanimous vote Free Democrat bosses picked a new leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only reliable democrat...