Word: kroll
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...line includes Jerry Hillebrand, Colorado, and Bill Miler, Miami of Florida at ends; Bill Neighbors, Alabama, and Merlin Olsen, Utah State at tackle; Roy Winston, Louisiana State, and Dave Behrman, Michigan State at guard, and Alex Kroll, Rutgers, at center...
...Conference, they were favored by two points to defeat Ivy League Co-Champion Columbia in their 1961 finale and, after 93 long years, to nail down their first undefeated season. They had a solid line, the East's best center in hard-hitting, hard-nosed Team Captain Alex Kroll, and a backfield that combined speed, drive and deft ball handling. Coaches thought enough of the team to rate it among...
...Kroll's cabled reports on the Moscow chat stunned Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Within ten days he would be in Washington for talks with President John F. Kennedy on the next steps in the Berlin crisis; U.S. Ambassador Thompson was awaiting the outcome before picking up his own discussions with the Russians. Sputtering with rage, Adenauer demanded Kroll's head...
Bowing to Pressure. Kroll was hardly contrite as he arrived in Bonn for his knuckle-rapping, demanded that the official criticism of his action be retracted. Kroll's confidence stemmed from his prominent membership in the Free Democratic Party, which forced its way into a coalition with Adenauer's Christian Democrats after the September elections. The Free Democrats have often toyed with a fresh approach to the "Eastern problem," and the party's boss, Erich Mende, advised Adenauer that he would not tolerate harsh treatment for Kroll...
This political pressure, weighed against word from Bonn's ambassador in Washington that neither the White House nor the State Department was unduly concerned with Kroll's call at the Kremlin, softened the Chancellor's ire. All right, he agreed, Herr Kroll could return to his Moscow post. But, he added, there were to be absolutely no more talks without advance approval. As he headed for Washington, his own position on Berlin apparently unchanged, Adenauer was serene...