Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like so many German scientists, Engineer Manfred Gerlach, 55, came out of the wreckage of Hitler's Reich better off than ever. When the Russian armies over ran East Germany in 1945. Gerlach was one of a team of Junker jet experts hauled off to Russia to teach tricks of the trade to Russia's aircraft designers. Returned to Communist East Germany in 1954, he was put in charge of a plant to develop engines for the 66-152, the jet airliner that was to be the crowning glory of East Germany's new aircraft industry...
...mere disaster: it had to be a crime. Last week, after eleven months in prison, Engineer Manfred Gerlach was brought into a Dresden court and charged with sabotaging development of the 66-152's engines by issuing "false instructions." He had been working for the West German intelligence all along, the prosecution said, and to prove the point brought to the stand his wife and 26-year-old daughter, who dutifully testified that Gerlach had repeatedly declared that "one must damage the state wherever possible." Gerlach was hustled off to life imprisonment. The great...
...eight-man rowing final a fast-stroking German crew, using
revolutionary, shovel-shaped oars, defeated Canada by three-quarters of
a length, left the U.S. Naval Academy's rowers adrift in fifth place.
For the U.S. the loss was the first in the event since 1912.
They figured without Hary's fierce pride. Son of a Saarland coal miner who was a German wrestling champion. Hary began serious training at the age of 14. By 1958 Hary was the European champion, but he had won few personal admirers along the way. Says West German Track Boss Dr. Max Danz: "He was a little urchin, a tough kid and a little loudmouth." Hary cockily dispensed with a coach: "I've been raised to stand on my own two feet and can take my fate into my own hands." In time, Hary's starting reflexes...
...field, Hary poised on his blocks as steady as a carrier plane braced on its catapult. The six men came off the mark together, but within two strides Hary had accelerated to a half-meter lead. By the 50-meter mark, Hary opened up a two-meter gap as German fans chanted: "Hary! Hary! Hary...