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With a quick, behind-the-curtains scuffle of secret operatives and an embarrassed official gulp, the U.S. Government last week rushed a prize exhibit offstage. The exhibit was ist Lieut. Anatoly Barsov, formerly of the Soviet Air Force...
Peter at last been found? Delicate Digging. Throughout the centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was crucified head downward in Nero's Circus, somewhere between 64 and 67 A.D., his body was buried in a pagan cemetery near by. Pious legend tells how Constantine, who built the first basilica over St. Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded...
Died. Major General Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...
...Frankfurt, one operator, wearily toting his worn leather briefcase, which is the money dealer's badge of badge of office, mourned: "Der Schwarzmarkt ist kaputt." In Paris, a fellow sufferer announced that he would have to "go into the picture business," i.e., peddle French postcards. "Not much money in that trade," he complained, "but we have to make a living...
After war's end, the Germans responsible for the massacre fell into Allied hands. Among them were two SS bigwigs, General Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich, commander of the 6th Armored Division, and Colonel Joachim Peiper of the ist Armored Regiment (known as "Peiper's Task Force"). But most were youngsters whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta...