Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missileman Wernher von Broun, 46, who next year undergoes the accolade normally bestowed on wealthy songwriters, dead Presidents and western gun toters-a movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...
...Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D...
Also, Mrs. Sarah M. McCoy, New York City; Mrs. Marilyn S. Matthews, Cambridge; Mrs. Ann E. Rose, Washington, D.C.; Rebecca A. Stafford, Topeka, Kan.; Stephanie von Susich, Framingham; Mrs. Sarah M. White, Rensselaerville...
...command post on Jerusalem's anciently named Hill of Evil Counsel, Major General Carlsson von Horn, Swedish chief of staff of the U.N. Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...
...rocks and scrub cypress trees by continuing machine gun and rifle fire. At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus. At 4:50 General von Horn's headquarters received word from Flint: "Evacuation of wounded is about to begin...