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...came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
Pinfold, at the moment, is cracking up. Nothing serious, of course; it is just that a neighbor, Reggie Graves-Upton, has come into possession of a box designed (like Wilhelm Reich's "orgone box"-TIME, June 4, 1956) to measure "Life-Waves." Pinfold gets the odd notion that Graves-Upton's box is measuring him. He imagines things, and Mrs. Pinfold presently decides that her husband needs a long sea voyage to cure him of "the fashionable agonies of angst...
...built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted supplies to the underground on 67 low-level flights to Norway, made no round trips in unarmed planes ferrying internees from Sweden to Britain). President Eisenhower sent his respects, and doughty Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid tribute to Balchen. Then, to add to the constellation of honors (including the Legion of Merit and the Medal of Honor) he had already, Balchen got another: the National Pilots Association's Outstanding Aviator Award...
Most spectacular recovery is resurgent West Germany. Last week, just across from the gaunt skeleton of the bombed Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, West Berlin opened three gleaming, glassy new buildings of its new garment center, will open later this summer its fabulous Building Exhibition, to which the world's greatest architects, from France's Le Corbusier to Brazil's Niemeyer and America's Gropius have each contributed a structure. Mercedes-Benz cars crowd the Autobahnen, and so many workers are buying Kleinstwagen (small one-or two-cylinder cars seating four) that the motorcycle industry is suffering...
...following awards will be presented in connection with the exercises: the Association of the United States Army medal to Eugene W. Urban '57 for the best all-around record in military science; the Air Force Association silver medal to Gayle B. Wilhelm '57 for outstanding abilities; and the Reserve Officers Association of the United States Navy medal to Wallson G. Knack '57 for highest aval aptitude...