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Three days later, the entire 6.500-man U.S. garrison in Berlin was put on alert, tanks and armored personnel carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
...German and Czechoslovakian border and anchors the NATO defense line that stretches 650 miles from Austria to the North Sea. The most vital mission in the five-division Seventh Army belongs to the 3rd Armored, which must plug the Hessian Corridor, a historic route of conquest. Says Lieut. General Garrison ("Gar") Davidson, 57, commander of the Seventh Army: "The 3rd Armored will give the Reds their first bloody nose...
...sense, the Hearst merger did indeed represent a "step forward." It eliminated a tenant from "the poor farm of American journalism"-as the late Oswald Garrison Villard described Boston's dismal and undistinguished newspaper scene (which, besides the two Hearst tabs, includes the Globe, the Herald and the Traveler). But Hearst's motive was less progress than pure economy. Both tabloids have been losing ground for years. Record circulation has dropped 59,000, to 352,842, since 1957; over the same period, the American has slipped from 176,318 to 163,169. After the merger was announced, dismissal...
...Both the Cromwellian and French revolutions were corrupted by utopian illusions and the confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning...
Even more precarious was the position of 150 Irish troops who had been sent to the mining town of Jadotville to protect its European residents. Under constant attack by hordes of savage warriors, the garrison was cut off from a relief column, but managed to flash a brave radio message to Léopoldville: "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whisky...