Word: wilhelm
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...noted European space authority and grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II added that the "whole civilized world is looking towards the United States for leadership" in the struggle for the control of space...
...these moderates (who include Bremen's Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt) have their way, the party's old nationalization program will be put into storage, and policymaking will be shifted from the hands of party bureaucrats based in Bonn to a larger body of more flexible Social Democratic leaders in closer touch with the voters, and with a more pragmatic approach to practicalities. Above all, the reformers intend that the party shall not go to the people again in 1961 with Erich Ollenhauer, a two-time loser, as its candidate for the chancellorship...
...Died. Wilhelm Reich, 60, once-famed psychoanalyst, associate and follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence...
Died. George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck, 63, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) chairman (since 1949) and longtime president (1925-50) of Merck & Co., Inc., the mass-producing drug and chemicals manufacturer that was launched as a pharmacy in Darmstadt, Germany in 1668 by his ancestors (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Orange, N.J. Devoted to company activities, with an exuberant capacity for work, Merck directed the Government's wartime research on biological warfare, built his company (last year's gross: $172.4 million) mostly on good will ("Medicine is for the people...
...precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...