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Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically transmitted muscle power was not the best solution, Professor Siegmund Weil and Technician Otto Häfner of Heidelberg University set out to develop a light, small and more efficient substitute. This week, after seven years of research, they were busy teaching amputees how to use their invention: an artificial arm operated by pressurized...
Tell, Tell, Tell. After surrendering himself to the West German police last week, John was held in close custody, but Correspondent Bonde-Henriksen had a world scoop. Otto John's story, according to Bonde-Henriksen, was that he had visited Wowo that night to "get some support for a widow of an executed anti-Nazi underground leader," and had been persuaded to go to his other flat in West Berlin ... "I woke up two days later in Karlshorst [Russian army headquarters]. A female doctor was sitting at my bedside and ... I got one injection and later on another...
...Bonn (where there is a treason charge standing against him), Otto John's story of drugged kidnaping and clever fencing with the MVD interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic. The West, having had time to take stock of his defection, had found the loss to Western intelligence less than expected. Strictly concerned with operations inside West Germany, he had had few intelligence secrets to tell the Russians. His propaganda value exhausted, the Communists had given him less and less to do, plainly showing that they also distrusted traitors...
...with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets...
...heroic theme gets severely heroic treatment. Director Otto Preminger has dulled the sociological backdrop that Author Algren daubed so brilliantly, has edged his major characters more starkly against the mass. As a result, the picture is no intellectual slumming party but a hard-eyed study of human character, and the actors serve this end with a well-directed will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face...