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...violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...second biggest U.S. commercial producer. (First: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.) "Stuyve" Peabody was president from 1946 until last year, when the board of directors, alarmed by a $636,855 loss in the fiscal year ending April 1954. moved him up to board chairman and put Executive Vice President Otto Gressens, 57, in as president. Gressens, who had been hired away from Illinois Commonwealth Edison in 1951, cut costs by closing some mines in southern Illinois, expects to report earnings of $1,200,000 for the year ending April 1955. Peabody, who disagreed on the way to run the company, said...
...Otto, the would-be playwright, forever scribbles his friends' dialogue into notebooks, but rarely gets a chance to test-fly a line ("I'd say he was a latent heterosexual...
...scientist expected to be able to arrange thermonuclear reactions similar to those they studied in the stars; the required heat seemed unattainable. In 1938 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, and their discovery led directly to the Abomb. And fission, with its intense release of energy, also suggested that conditions could be created under which thermonuclear reactions might occur. The late Enrico Fermi in 1942 suggested to Teller that fission could be used to start thermonuclear reaction in deuterium (heavy hydrogen). "After a few weeks of hard thought," Teller recalls, "I decided that deuterium could not be ignited...
Professor Otto J. Gombosi, professor of Music, died of a heart attack at his home yesterday. Professor Gombosi, who had been with Harvard since 1952, was one of the foremost authorities in medieval and Renaissance music...