Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notes for the drama in the form of a seven-part special section on space exploration. One article, reported by Correspondent Leo Janos, discusses how their experiences on the moon have affected the men who walked there. Correspondent Jerry Hannifin described the Apollo 17 flight plan, while Correspondent John Wilhelm assessed the scientific rewards of lunar exploration...
Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...
...much an analysis of the decadence of our civilization as a symptom of its decline." Wrote one reviewer: "Thompson's Edge is to Charles Reich's The Greening of America what chess is to Chinese checkers." In a lengthy interview, TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm pursued further Thompson's ideas about technocracy, beginning with the Club of Rome, the international organization of scientists and industrialists that has called for zero population and economic growth (TIME, Aug. 14). But Thompson's remarks about economic growth were only the starting point for an amazing, freewheeling discussion that ranged from...
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the society is that it exists at all. It is successor to the old Kaiser Wilhelm Society, founded in 1911 under the patronage of Germany's last emperor. By the '20s, the original society had attracted a galaxy of scientific stars, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Fritz Haber and Max Planck, whose quantum theory is the cornerstone of modern physics. When the Nazis came to power in the '30s, the society's fortunes sagged. Planck, who was head of the society during those turbulent years, tried to stop...
...Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after these murders?" he wrote in January of 1918, after moving to Switzerland to escape military service...