Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Making love in a Volkswagen can be an impossible feat, as a University of Pennsylvania student discovered not long ago. His failure led to a year of impotence that ended only recently when Temple University Psychiatrist Joseph Wolpe cured him in two sessions. Wolpe's treatment; a controversial method called behavior therapy...
...riding crop, he often arranged for brass bands to entertain his captives as they were herded into Treblinka's infamous gas "showers." Captured by American troops and turned over to Austrian authorities, Stangl escaped in 1947 and fled to Brazil, where he worked as a mechanic in a Volkswagen plant before he was tracked down in 1967. At that time, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal branded him "the second Eichmann...
...influence of the famous German design school, the Bauhaus, on the arts today is as apparent as the ubiquitous Volkswagen is on U.S. streets. Mushroom-topped lamps, svelte coffee pots, paintings of surreal geometries, and clean, functional buildings are associated with the Bauhaus attitude as readily as jimmies are with Boston ice cream cones. In its art work the Bauhaus mixes mysticism with the concrete. In its pedagogy it encourages imaginative thinking yet demands well-defined results. And from this composite house of arts-crafts-architecture, appeared distinct personalities like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy...
...than for their musical talents. Singing songs like the Temptations' I Wish It Would Rain and My Girl, or Smokey Robinson's Going to a Go-Go, they began making tours to Chicago, Arizona, New York and Boston. The family made most of these trips in their Volkswagen bus, with a second van for equipment. The kids just remember all the snow and all their weekends and school holidays being spent in motels and strange arenas. Says Marlon: "We would do a show somewhere Sunday night, we'd get home at 3 in the morning, then...
...remarkable new instrument is the result of an almost singlehanded campaign by the 60-year-old head of Bonn University's Institute of Radio Astronomy. Trying to restore some of Germany's prewar scientific luster, Professor Otto Hachenberg personally supervised the design, persuaded the Volkswagen foundation to pay most of the cost ($9 million), and nagged the builders to complete the complicated job from blueprints to operation in a short 3½ years...