Word: wilhelm
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...ANGELES Correspondent John Wilhelm first seriously considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life four years ago while visiting the mam moth radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Pulsars - radio signals now thought to emanate from rapidly rotating neutron stars in the far reaches of space - had just been discovered. Arecibo Director Frank Drake let Wilhelm listen a audio signals originating light-years away. Recalls Wilhelm: "It was a little like putting a stethoscope to the heart of the universe. Drake did not dismiss the possibility, however slight, that pulsars might in fact be navigation beacons used by an advanced civilization...
Doing the principal reporting for this week's cover story has given Wilhelm his best opportunity so far to indulge his addiction. As a science correspondent, he has covered several Gemini and Apollo flights for TIME as well as the death of three astronauts during a 1967 training exercise. Wilhelm found the scientists and the atmosphere at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of the Mariner program, different from the men and mood at Houston and Cape Kennedy...
During Baha'u'llah's forty years' imprisonment, he wrote over a hundred volumes and tablets setting forth his spiritual and social teachings. These included tablets sent to the principle political and ecclesiastical rulers of the time: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Czar Alexander II, Kaiser Francis Joseph of Austria, President Grant, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-Aziz of Turkey, and Nasir'd-Din Shah of Iran. In these letters, he proclaimed the coming of a new Manifestation of God and exhorted them to lay down their arms and take hold of that which would be conducive...
...whisked off to the U.S.S.R. to continue his anti-German work? It is an established fact that there was a high-level leak of Nazi secrets to the Soviets. According to the first installment of Gehlen's memoirs, both he and his Abwehr (Army counterintelligence) superior, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. "came to the conviction that the Soviets must have at their disposal a well-informed intelligence source at the top of the German leadership," and that this source was Bormann. Gehlen says that he received two dependable reports in the 1950s that "Martin Bormann lived perfectly covered and protected...
...Gehlen's astonishing thesis. A 1947 book called Who Killed Hitler? states: "Russian intelligence reported Bormann under arrest, a prisoner of the Red Army in the Berlin area in early July 1945-two months after Berlin's capture!" An International News Service story in 1950 quotes Wilhelm Hoettl, a Nazi secret service expert, as saying that Bormann and other former German officials were running a bureau in the U.S.S.R. to "reorganize Germany, East and West, along the lines of a people's democracy...