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...came swiftly. Addressing Germany's parliament, which was about to begin debating a one-year extension of Germany's deployment of around 4,300 troops, zu Guttenberg told deputies that Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Inspector-General and head of Germany's armed forces since 2002, and long-serving state secretary Peter Wichert, a senior official at Germany's defense department, had taken responsibility for the breakdown in communications and resigned. Jung initially defended his actions but resigned Friday. (See pictures of the history of the Berlin Wall...
...Geoff Wichert...
...high wind last November, and last year's prizewinner (the feathery Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) has recently been equipped with diagonal stays to check its oscillations. The Susquehanna River Bridge, which won the big bridge prize this year, is a type of bridge using the relatively new Wichert Truss which needs less steel and spreads to take up extra stress when its piers settle in soft river bottoms. It was built at a cost of $4,085,000 by Baltimore's J. E. Greiner Co., winners of an honorable mention last year. Its designer, Greiner Co.'s young...
...Wichert's farce, "Als Verlobte Empfehlen Sich," was presented at last night's meeting of the Deutscher Verein in Roberts Hall. In spite of a certain stiffness in the acting, the comedy was given very successfully. The cast of characters was as follows: Frau von Grvmbach, P. G. Robinson '03. Malwina, her daughter, F. Watson '02. Franz Von Grumbach, Malwina's cousin, H. J. Davenport '00. Adelheid Hopfstengel, Malwina's governess, E. B. Ahlborn '02. Andreas Sangerhaus, the steward, A. N. Fuller '00. Maid, A. Drinkwater...
...regular meeting of the Deutscher Verein in Roberts Hall at 7.30 tonight, a farce entitled "Als Verlobte Empfehlen Sich," by Wichert, will be presented. This will be the first of the series of comedies to be presented by the Verein this spring. The performance will be open only to those invited by members of the Verein. A business meeting will be held before the play and officers for the coming year will be elected...