Word: zug
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Died. Claude Dornier, 85, German aeronautical engineer whose career kept him in the front rank of his country's aircraft industry for five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and in recent years experimented with a series of novel vertical takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though...
...Paulo may be uninhabitable by the year 2000," says Biologist Jacob Zug-man. Along with the city's growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos...
...world has never really been good enough for the Swiss, who for 300 years have looked down their Alpine noses at the other people on earth. Until now, the foreign civil servants at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the businessmen taking tax shelter in Zurich and Zug, and the hordes of common laborers from Italy and Spain have been grudgingly tolerated. No more. With 15% of the nation's 5.9 million people holding foreign passports, the sensitive Swiss have suddenly come down with an acute case of xenophobia...
Hetheringten, Yale '63, gained the finals of the Foster Cup competition with a semifinal victory over Jim Zug, last year's runner...
...Zug, a second-year business student who captained the Princeton varsity in 1962, still has to play Bob Hetherington, Yale's number two player last year and now a first-year student at the Divinity School, in a semifinal, and the time hasn't been arranged...