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...cracked them wide open. On Oct. 15 and 16 they had considered the capital lost. Then came the organization of fresh reserves and civilian defenders, the temporary stabilization of the front 50 miles from Moscow in mid-November. On Nov. 16 Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, indifferent to the cost-in-blood (TIME, Dec. 8), flung his armored divisions against Moscow for a second time. He succeeded in driving two long battle tracks into the country about Moscow, as if to pinch it off from the rear...
...military spokesman in Berlin announced that the German Army does not expect to capture Moscow this year. Either Germany was gathering strength for an offensive somewhere else, or the spectre of the wholesale amputation of frozen arms & legs was too much even for hard-bitten Marshal Fedor von Bock...
...Arlie V. Bock, Oliver Professor of Biochemistry, said that it might be arranged for the students to give their blood in some University building, and emphasized that the donor would feel no serious physiological effects...
Because Marshal von Bock could not advance speedily, the element of surprise was largely denied him. The usually ponderous Russians could see what he was trying to do, were able to take counter-measures (see black arrows on map, p. 24). They claimed that they were squeezing his northern prong into a virtual encirclement, that they were slowing the southern prong...
This week Marshal von Bock's second great try seemed to be playing out. But the tenacious Marshal was not through. He would certainly try, try again. If he eventually succeeded, it would be at great cost, because the Dier would go on saying to his men, as he had always said...