November 1952: “Eisenhower Elected President” proclaimed the headline in Die Welt. Why did they do that, those crazy Americans? This will mean the Dulles brothers in power and Adenauer's rearmament of Germany. But I put politics out of my mind and rang the doorbell of the apartment on Hamburg's Bundesstrasse. A maid with a little white cap opened the door.
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Fundamental constants
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