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...satisfied by a number of men." He named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self-confessed wolf" with "the morals of a tomcat"; Harvey Combe, 37. onetime press officer at London's Savoy Hotel; Baron Sigismund von Braun. 52, brother of Rocket Scientist Wernher, who was counselor of West Germany's London embassy until 1958, and is now his government's U.N. observer in New York; and an unidentified partner who had been photographed in the nude with the duchess. The judge did not spare...
...many top scientists are Hungarian, he explained: "We are all from Mars originally. We decided to infiltrate the U.S. and were sent to Hungary - where some queer people live anyway -to be conditioned for human life." Though addicted to pretty women, as well as to slivovitz and strong cigars. Von Karman never married. He lived with his sister Josephine (Pipo), who managed much of his personal life until she died in 1951. Intimates expected the shock of her loss to kill him, but he continued his work with undiminished vigor. By his casual count, he had earned 24 honorary degrees...
...Died. Theodore von Karman, 81, premier aerodynamicist; of a heart attack; in Aachen, West Germany (see SCIENCE...
...great Far Eastern religions consider created matter, including man, so barbaric that the only hope lies in nirvana, in which the soul?unnamed, unnumbered, unidentified?achieves a blessed reunion with the cosmic spirit. The Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer expressed this Eastern anti-individualism perfectly in his novel The Demons. Looking Eastward, he mused that there "individual life does not rebel; there is too little of it for rebellion. One soul mingles with another like smoke." But in the West, "every life has its own special, if invisible, garden plot. . . . A man stands alone between the tended flower beds...
Switched Allegiance. The U.N. observer team, which will be set up by the former U.N. Congo commander, Swedish Major General Carl Von Horn, is a device to save political face for everyone. Saudi Arabia had already been cutting back on its supply of money and guns to the royalists, largely because Egypt's projected plan for unity with Syria and Iraq made Nasser far too formidable an opponent. The U.N. intervention also gives Nasser a way out of the Yemen mess, which has tied up a third of his army at a cost...