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...Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous, celebrated his 80th birthday, marked by a four-page letter from Wernher and a gift of twelve bottles of Rhine wine. Said he, fingering his white walrus mustache in wonderment-now mixed with pride-at his son's strange fascination with space: "I don't know where his talent comes from...
WEST GERMANY Pause on the Rhine...
...impatient" approach to reunification, Conant said, offers policymakers the two extreme solutions of neutralization at the cost of withdrawing U.S. troops from across the Rhine, or rearmament of Germany with the intention of an eventual invasion of East Germany...
Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
Under the elaborate scheme worked out by Eaton and Krupp, ships would move into Hopes Advance Bay during the four-month ice-free season each summer, haul the pelletized ore to Rotterdam, where it will be transferred to barges and towed up the Rhine to German steel mills. By great circle routes. Hopes Advance Bay is almost as close to Rotterdam (2,570 miles) as it is to Philadelphia (2,245 miles...