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...would they do this for us?" wondered Gerhardt Clauss, 61, a former German infantryman who was seeing the tiny north-woods town of Stark, N.H., for the first time since 1946. Clauss, now a prosperous businessman in north Germany, shook his head, surprised by the brass band, the drill team and bagpiper, the signs announcing GERMAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP DAY. On the other hand, why had Clauss, four other former prisoners and an assortment of wives, friends and children come all the way to Stark...
Quincy House residents had been told to expect a fire drill...
...drill team in Moldavian mufti, all spit and polish in braids and boots, the company has raised folk dancing to a highly regimented, breathtakingly athletic art form. Drawing inspiration from the more than 100 different ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, but predominantly Russian in personnel and outlook, the company remains the personal expression of its founder, Choreographer Igor Moiseyev...
...participants, the day starts at 4:30 a.m. After calisthenics and breakfast, drill instructors inspect lockers while inmates stand rigidly at attention. By 8 o'clock, it is time for military maneuvers, conducted to the cadence of the drill instructor. Sloppy performance is punishable by an on- the-spot demand for push-ups. Most recruits are quick to comply, since they are being graded on physical training, response to authority and motivation. Low marks can result in an extension of time in the program...
...American or French. The deepest operational diver of them all is the U.S. Navy's 31 1/2-ft., 58,000-lb., three-man Sea Cliff, which can safely carry its crew to a depth of 20,000 ft. Its manipulator arms can operate a variety of underwater tools, including a drill, a cable cutter, scissors, and plier-like jaws that can grasp sunken torpedoes, as well as attach cable slings to raise heavier objects such as downed aircraft...