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...change? Must we die, like Schlink? Brecht calls death "the coldest answer." Do we keep on wrestling, like Garga? He is going to New York, but will probably fail and return soon. Shall we make love, like Garga's sister, Maria? She will never find real love...
...intensify the level of fighting. Thus France's Mideast policy will undoubtedly be a major topic of discussion during Pompidou's White House visits with President Nixon, and it is likely to provoke unpleasant incidents during his nationwide tour. The U.S. Congress will provide one of its coldest receptions in history to a chief-of-state guest speaker. Many Representatives plan either to boycott Pompidou's address, walk out while it is in progress, or present him with a declaration of protest. New York Mayor John Lindsay, who delighted the city's heavy Jewish population last...
...jungle war, while the temperature outside plunged to a near-record -53° F., helped the two men keep warm. It was outside, says Mannock, that trouble took over. "My biggest problem was that my beard kept freezing." For the rest of the story, see THE NATION, "The Coldest...
...shelter, men can prove more rugged than their machines. Last week 6,000 weary G.I.s trekked back to the warmth of barracks after a fortnight of war games across 642,000 acres of frozen Alaskan muskeg 128 miles below the Arctic Circle. Though they were engaged in the coldest winter maneuvers on record, only eight soldiers had been hospitalized briefly for frostbite and 46 others treated for minor freezing pains (six men died in accidents not connected with the cold). At the same time, 100 cold-soaked trucks, tracked personnel carriers and tanks had to be towed from snowdrifts...
Logistics Nightmare. The locale for the exercise, aptly named "Acid Test," was south of the Tanana River near Fairbanks, in one of Alaska's coldest spots, where - 80° F. has been registered. With temperatures of 60 below at some locations, the war games strained men and machines to new limits as officers tested new doctrines for winter warfare...