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...Focke, 88, German aircraft designer who helped develop the helicopter; in Bremen. Inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...
...intended to resign last fall as executive director. After 15 years in the A.C.L.U., he admits, "I'm combat weary." But he postponed his exit a year to see the A.C.L.U. through the Skokie crisis. Internal wrangling, which forced Washington Director Charles Morgan Jr. and Legal Director Melvin Wulf out of the organization, has added to the strain on Neier. So has the revelation that union officials passed along information about its membership to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 1950s...
...Latin American telephone lines to be used to send information to German submarines during World War II, although the friendship towards Hitler of the company's founder, Colonel Sosthenes Behn, makes it seem highly probable. There is no doubt, however, that the company owned 28 per cent of Focke-Wulf Aircraft, whose planes bombed American ships, which ITT direction finders used to evade German torpedoes. Although Behn maintained good relations with the Naxis during the war, through the SS general who was his personal representative, he also arrived in Paris with the American army, as an expert on communications...
...corruption and compromise which left the idealism in ruins." From documents he found in U.S. archives, Sampson concludes that Behn cooperated willingly with the Nazis, choosing not to repatriate his German profits and agreeing to his German subsidiary's purchase of an interest in Focke-Wulf, the aircraft company. It is only fair to say that ITT denies Sampson's interpretation, arguing that foreign-owned companies in Nazi Germany were not allowed to send their profits home. Compensation was another story, however. When Nazi-controlled Rumania threatened to expropriate ITT's phone system, Behn cannily negotiated...
Despite the rewards, the single-mindedness of the sports program can be wearing. "I lost my idealism in East Germany," says Wulf Reinicke, who defected to the West. "Sport there was work by which one earned money. I was pushed all the time. In the end, 1 did not even do it for the money. I did it to get out." Adds Giinter Zoller, who defected during the European figure-skating championships at Goteborg, Sweden, last January: "From the age of 13, I was reared for medals. The time comes when you're fed up with...