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...cold, cloudy morning in Berlin. Just before 8 o'clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that spans the sleepy Havel River between the U.S. zone and Communist territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally, two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks...
...Blue" attacking force of the 3rd Battle Group of the 6th Infantry Division scored in a sneak amphibious attack on the defending "Reds" of the 2nd Battle Group when they maneuvered three miles up the Havel River, hit the Reds from the rear. Next day, the Reds counterattacked with a massive firecracker barrage simulating an air and artillery offensive witnessed by General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's representative in Berlin. Said Clay: "This was a well-laid maneuver. Everyone took it seriously...
...week Stephan was all primed to take off on a vacation with his wife and 15-year-old son in his new Volkswagen. There was just one more chore to do before the fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke cleared...
...planes came in over the hills beyond the Havel, and the people in their cellars could hear the motors' hum. The guns were speaking now in chorus, their individual bangs and roars mixed in a hell of sound that thrummed the tight air in the shelters. Talk stopped; faces craned upward anxiously, waiting for the big bombs to fall...
...tough one, Coach Brock of the Maroon has a wealth of material at his disposal. Although handicapped by the injury of veteran wing Dick Havel and fullback Stan Christman in last week's impressive win over Williams, the men in maroon can boast of threats in Captain Irv Schmid, hard-playing center forward and inside forward Wilbur Eaton...