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Steve McQueen, of course. He may not be quite as big, rough and ferrous as the cast-iron Duke, but he has proved himself worthy. He has displayed reckless fortitude by following Yul Brynner into battle in The Magnificent Seven. He was TV's Hessian headhunter in Wanted-Dead or Alive, serving what he describes as "three hard mother-grabbin' years, but I learned my trade and it gave me discipline." His range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier...
...following World War II, the company's family management stubbornly continued to concentrate on steam locomotives while Europe's railroads clamored for diesels and electrics. By 1958 Henschel was losing $2,000,000 a year, and creditors were beginning to encircle its huge new plant in the Hessian city of Kassel...
Last week in Frankfurt, after Dixon conducted the Hessian Radio Orchestra in a program of Schoenberg, Debussy and Mozart, the ovation he got only echoed what critics have been saying in print that in his first season at the head of the orchestra, Dixon has made the musicians play "as if transformed." For all his flair, Dixon is no fancy...
...toward fighting positions that have long since been plotted for protective cover and fields of fire. Within two hours of the first cry of the sirens, the 14,617-man 3rd Armored Division of the U.S. Seventh Army is braced in battle deployment against any Communist thrust through the "Hessian Corridor"-a stretch of gentle, rolling country that invites invasion from East Germany...
...Army, which guards more than 300 miles of the East 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...