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...battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy of a rousing welcome...
...weathermen first spotted the hurricane when it towered up off the West Indies, at about lat. 16° N., long. 60° W. It was a monstrous specimen-a spinning funnel of black storm with a 140-mile-an-hour gale lining its core of calm. For six days, moving as a body about 15 m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh...
...action began along a 156-mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...
Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...