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July 17, 1944, a Nazi truck convoy was crossing a pontoon bridge over the Po River in northern Italy when Allied bombers attacked. One driver was killed, but the trucks got across. Their cargo: a priceless haul of masterpieces, including the two pictured above, from Florence's Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace...
Dynamited Danube. In the bitter cold, many nations suffered acute fuel shortages. In the U.S., the mayor of Huntsville, Ala. declared an emergency because of rapidly vanishing natural gas supplies. The British government organized a 4,000-truck coal convoy to bring fuel into freezing communities, and the nation's serious unemployment problem worsened as farms and construction firms laid off tens of thousands of workers because of the cold. In Paris, the French Cabinet ordered that priority on coal deliveries be given to the aged. As Yugoslavian factories began to shut down for lack of heat, coal miners...
...quiet afternoon at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin when suddenly a convoy of official cars raced up to the Wall from the Communist sector of the city. Out swarmed dozens of Russian security men around a familiar portly figure decked out in a black astrakhan cap and grey overcoat. It was Nikita Khrushchev all right, and he promptly proceeded to give one of his impromptu theatrical performances. Grinning broadly, he mugged for photographers, gaily waved a pudgy finger at the barbed wire and steel barrier, then ambled over for a chat with a busload of astonished Italian newsmen. Asking...
...first pictures brought back of four medium-range missile sites indicated that the Russians were indeed dismantling their missiles. Some missile launchers had been removed, trailers and tents had vanished, and some areas had been plowed and bulldozed over. One picture showed a truck convoy moving away from a base...
Meanwhile, the Soviets stepped up their harassment of Allied traffic to West Berlin. A U.S. troop convoy was held up on the Autobahn; three times in two days Soviet MIG fighters buzzed unarmed Allied planes in the 20-mile Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor. Said one Western official: "It's part of what we call their 'weekly reminder' that they're around. They don't like too much time to go by without letting us know they still have a grip on Berlin...