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...Framingham checkpoint, however, the experts had taken over. Out in front was Boston's John J. Kelley, immediately followed by Vandendrissche, Eino Valle of Finland, Erik Ostbye of Sweden, and, of course, the Japanese...
...Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots as he screamed into the Cat Cay checkpoint, with Holocaust smack on his stern. Trying to beat 007 to the checkpoint at Cat Cay pier, Lewis lost his bearings, ran Holocaust onto a sand bar and out of the race. By that point, Dick Bertram was two miles back, waging a mighty fight against smooth water...
...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...
Before dawn on Sunday morning, four battalions of South Vietnamese troops moved up the road toward Saigon from the Mekong Delta. Spearheaded by armored cars and Jeeps carrying heavy machine guns, they first disarmed a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the capital, then set guards to forbid the movement of traffic in or out of the city. Without a fight, the rebels occupied communication centers in the capital, burst into the office of Premier Nguyen Khanh, and arrested several duty officers but found no trace of the Premier. It was the coup d'etat that many had dreaded...
Once through the Friedrichstrasse border checkpoint, Peter collected his girl friend's West German identity card to "keep her from losing it," parked her in a gloomy cafe on Karl Marx Alice with a kiss and a promise to return, and took off. Still starry-eyed, Dorothea waited and waited, but her Peter did not come back. Alone, and without her ID card, she could only go to the Volkspolizei for help. But the Vopos were in no mood to give courteous assistance to the lost traveler. Instead they tossed the sobbing Dorothea into jail on charges of complicity...