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When the Russians held up an American convoy en route to Berlin last month, a top U.S. State Department officer wrote it off as a misunderstanding by Soviet junior officers. But, he added worriedly, "had it turned out that it was part of a deliberate policy at the top-that they were going to push to its ultimate conclusion-then, of course, we would have a hell of a crisis on our hands...
Last week it became perfectly plain that the Soviet autobahn harassment was no mere junior officer's misunderstanding. The results, if not a hell of a crisis, were at least a touchy 41 hours and an argument that remains dangerously unresolved. As a Berlin-bound U.S. convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group...
...battle group to Berlin a week after the Wall went up in August 1961. At the Marienborn checkpoint, the Russians complained that they could not get an accurate count. With brass bands, massed crowds and Vice President Lyndon Johnson waiting impatiently in Berlin for the convoy to arrive, Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr. ordered his men to dismount to speed things up. Ever since, the Russians have frequently demanded that troops in large convoys get out of their vehicles to be counted...
...official puts it, are as elaborately wacky as "the dance of the gooney birds on Wake Island."* Thirty passengers are considered a small convoy, and everybody stays put; more than 30, and everybody dismounts except drivers and assistant drivers, who are not counted. In no case may the Russians lower the tail gate of trucks or order the passengers to stand up. Reason: a test showed that even a 5-ft. shrimp could count heads by just looking into the back of a U.S. Army truck with its tail gate raised. Some British lorries have higher tail gates...
...They rushed in. But Jimmy was gone. In one of those incredible flashes of grace that light up professional football, the huge man had pirouetted nearly 180° and was sprinting across the field to his right, looking for protective blockers. Three Cleveland players formed up to make a convoy. Jimmy circled behind them, throttled down to a casual trot for his third TD of the afternoon. Marveled Giant Defensive Captain Andy Robustelli: "We had him, and we still couldn...