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Last week, staring into a Scotch and soda in a Frankfurt bar, an Army captain brooded: "This isn't Korea or Viet Nam, and it takes more than an effort of will to remain pure here for two years. And I wonder the same about my wife back home. You worry about home, her old boyfriend, the kids." Said an Air Force chaplain in England: "Morale is at rock bottom. We had an incident of a rendezvous in London between an officer and another man's wife. I thought somebody was going to get shot...
...narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every movement of the occupants. Soviet soldiers could leave if they wished, said Clarke, but they would be tailed every inch of the way by armed U.S. troops. Two days later the Soviets retaliated in kind by sealing...
...Under 1947 agreements still in effect, the U.S., Britain and France maintain individual outposts in East Germany in exchange for similar Soviet outposts in Frankfurt, Bad Salzuflen and Baden Baden. The original purpose of the missions was to maintain liaison among the wartime Allies; now they operate as legal checking systems, cruising the highways and keeping their eyes open for military movements...
...quite made it, but 50 years later, at 64, Wilder is becoming a handy man-about-the-opera-house: his one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner recently provided the libretto for an opera by Composer Paul Hindemith (TIME, Dec. 29). Now his play The Alcestiad has furnished the Frankfurt Opera with an engaging and unexpected hit of the same name...
...almost died out.'' Wilder revived the art so successfully that Talma did not have to ask him to make a single change in the free-verse dialogue. She did, however, have to prune the German version of the libretto prepared for the Frankfurt Opera by Translator Herberth Herlitschka. Among the original Wilder lines that Talma particularly admired for their singable quality: "Send me the sign I have waited for/ Call me, call...