Word: ulm
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This year marks the centennial of Einstein's birth on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, and all the world seems to be joining the party. In the U.S. and Europe, in Asia and Latin America, even in the Soviet Union, where Einstein's ideas were once considered heresy, academic institutions are vying to outdo each other with special tributes...
...academician who did not go into business until he was more than 40. Born in Ulm, Germany, Eckstein fled Hitler in 1938, graduated from Princeton and in 1955 earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, where, as he says in his fast-paced, slightly accented English, "I found a home." He has taught there ever since, except for 18 months in the mid-1960s, when he was a member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. (Professor Eckstein's popular course in freshman economics usually draws well over 800 students...
...recreational rooms provided by the Communists for Italian workers in northern Europe, special campaign tape cassettes are played over the public address systems and party officials from Rome are addressing workers' groups in Stuttgart, Ulm, Luxembourg and Liegè. Working through local trade unions, the P.C.I, has also tried to get foreign employers to give their Italian employees time off to vote...
Arabella House, near the West German city of Kaiserslautern, is a well-kept building with 72 single-room-and-bath apartments and such amenities as tennis courts, bowling alleys, beer cellar, nightclub, sauna, solarium-and a fully equipped room for sadomasochists. Arabella is what its operator, Kurt Kohls of Ulm, likes to call an "Eros center" and what almost everyone else would call a brothel. Kohls already runs four such centers in West Germany and Austria, and hopes to open other Arabellas in Luxembourg, Holland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and East Berlin...
...alone with it. After a short while he experiences, painfully or happily, how his childhood was, and he begins to understand both himself and his children better." Brocher, now head of the sociopsychology department at Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute, started his first "play school for parents" in Ulm, Germany, in 1955. Since that time, several additional Brocher-inspired schools have opened in Germany and other European countries, and the concept is now being tested at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas...