Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to an audience in his native Germany, Space Scientist Wernher von Braun, 47, advanced the thesis that scientists should not be held responsible for the ultimate use of the weapons they develop. Von Braun then went to London, where he is best remembered as the German scientist who developed the ballistic missile V-2 for the Nazis-and at least one reporter doggedly held the scientist responsible. "How do you feel now about your work during the war and its effects on my country?" "I greatly regret the abuse of science, but there is an old English saying...
Philharmonic produced a storm of bravos with Samuel Barber's Second Essay for Orchestra, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Afterward, Shostakovich rushed to the stage to embrace Lenny. Pasternak went backstage to kiss Lenny, cried: "You have taken us up to heaven. I've never felt so close to the esthetic truth. When I hear you, I know why you were born." Said Lenny: "I adore this...
There, Jones pitched a no-hitter, but never began to realize his potential until he went to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1957. Last year he had a record of 14-13, but led the league's starters with an earned-run average of 2.88, and struck out 225 batters. Traded to the Giants, Jones has had no trouble finding the plate this season: "I guess when you throw a million balls you learn what's going over and what...
Shipowner Onassis sang a variation on the Callas theme: "Friends have described me as a sailor," went his barcarolle. "Sailors do not usually go for sopranos." But, he added, "I would indeed be flattered to have a woman of her class fall...
Thus Novelist-Playwright Herman Wouk, now 44, who started out as a gag writer for Fred Allen, went on to write The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar, tells how he came to give a second try to the Judaism in which he was born. That "gamble," as he calls it, resulted in a steadily deepening faith and practice-Sabbath, dietary laws and all-which survived the rigors of three years at sea in the Navy and continued citizenship in the realms of gold. It also resulted in Author Wouk's latest book, This Is My God (Doubleday...