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...gasoline engines have a basic fault; their reciprocating parts (pistons, connecting rods, etc.) must be stopped and started thousands of times per minute. This wastes power, and it also calls for a heavy engine to stand up against the battering it gets. Last week NSU Werke motor company of Neckar-sulm, West Germany described a gas engine that has neither pistons nor valves. Invented by a mechanical genius named Felix Wankel, it was developed with financial help from Curtiss-Wright Corp., which provided a fervid earlier announcement of it (TIME, Dec. 7) but no mechanical details...
...hurry for a headline, called Dulles' message a 75-day "ultimatum." Most of the Secretary's audience appeared willing to take it for what it was meant to be-a helpful reminder of the facts of life in the U.S. "This visit," suggested Germany's Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, "shows [all] nations with brutal clarity that it no longer suffices to pucker one's lips. We now must whistle...
Crossed Fingers. There were some drawbacks to the fine weather. German floodwaters had put the Neckar, Weser and Ruhr canals out of business and closed the Rhine's Düsseldorf bridge. In Venice, the Adriatic had risen to cover St. Mark's Square and the Rialto. Torrential rains and melting snow in the mountains of France had sent Nancy, Epinal and Metz their worst floods in more than a century. In the Vosges 33 bridges were washed out. And with a month of winter still to come, there was always the chance of late frosts that might...
Sitting here on a soft spring afternoon by the side of the Neckar I could pretend that nothing had changed since I was here fifteen years ago; Heidelberg, like Marburg, Bamberg, and several other smaller cities in Germany remained almost untouched by the mass destruction of the allied armed forces. But it could only be pretending...
From the university seat of Heidelberg, TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson cabled this bucolic picture: "Old Heidelberg today slept in the April sunshine, in a cloud of appleblossoms, as tranquil and placid as the mirror-smooth Neckar River. Here the war seems something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...