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...kept stocked with a full supply of ammunition. Since taking command of the division a year ago, Abrams has weeded out some 200 officers and men who did not shape up to his standards. Abrams tries every day to get away from the paperwork at his headquarters in Frankfurt, climb aboard his personal Bell helicopter and whirl off to inspect everyone in a unit from bird colonel to buck private. "No one is more deliberate in planning for war," says General Bruce Clarke of Abrams. "No one is more violent in execution...
Discounting Wednesday's easy 5-0 defeat of Tufts as genuine proof of Crimson strength, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to the season's first Ivy League game to supply the answers. "After Cornell," he said, "I may be ready to climb way out on the end of a limb...
...figure-probably an African or Asian-as a temporary administrator. Stevenson knew that it was useless to press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound U.N. executive, representing East, West and the neutrals. To make the point, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko already was repeating a little rhyme to reporters...
...years ago when our youth group went on a hike, after asking for some water, we were taken into their kitchen and given cookies and something to drink. If we were able to walk through their gate, it seems quite impossible to think that neighbors had to climb the fence to see Mr. Salinger's home...
...Tempelhof, which was ringed by buildings. Tunner would use just three fields this time: at the West German end, the two closest to Berlin in the central air corridor, and in Berlin, unobstructed Tegel Airport in the French sector. Using these three fields would avoid the 5,000-ft. climb to clear mountains, cut the average distance nearly in half, permit the planes to flow toward Tegel at a mere 500 ft., returning in a wide northern loop to approach their home fields from the West...