Word: wilhelm
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Died. Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...
...most poignant cases was reported by Chicago's American, which has been generally sympathetic to the police. Hoping to find his runaway son among the yippies, Wilhelm Vill, 59, an immigrant steelworker from Estonia, asked two policemen in Lincoln Park for help. Before he could finish telling them about his son, Vill said, they approached him with their billy clubs ready. While one grabbed his arm, the other asked: "What do you want, you rotten bum?" Taken to the station house, Vill, a nondrinker, was booked on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct...
...nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently probed the secrets of the atom. He repeated an experiment that had been tried by half a dozen researchers, including Enrico Fermi in Rome and Irene Joliot-Curie in Paris...
Over the years, Cook's services have been sought by princes and kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose visit to Jerusalem Cook's arranged in 1898. It required 300 tents, 800 mule drivers, 1,430 mules and camels and a small army of servants to keep the Kaiser and his retinue comfortable on the journey. Cook's has never since done anything on quite such grandiose scale. It hopes from now on to increase profits by presenting a more proletarian image...
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde (Angel 3588). Still the best recorded Tristan ever, with Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad...