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...East German police machine-gunned a mission staff car, narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every movement of the occupants. Soviet soldiers could leave if they wished, said Clarke, but they would be tailed every inch of the way by armed U.S. troops. Two days later...
...next exploit, a lawsuit charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest, was a convenient cover for the most audacious escape in policemen's memory. He got outside accomplices to smuggle him a padlock in the Law Courts, went to the toilet with two guards. When they removed his handcuffs outside. Alfie bundled them into the lavatory, snapped the padlock onto screw eyes inserted on the door by his pals, and vanished in crowded Fleet Street. Though he was recaptured at the airport five hours later. Hinds slipped out of Chelmsford Prison in less than a year and returned...
...else but Artzybasheff could capture the hopeless, despairing mood of East Germany's captive peoples with as simple a device as a chain and a spectral padlock. The compelling message of this cover picture is plain, and needs no words of explanation. (MRS.) ALICE A. PAULSON...
...Chang, used by the varsity soccer Team when one quick goal is needed, through with a score in the last minutes of play to give the Crimson victory over Pennsylvania Saturday. Chang's shot broke a 57-minute padlock in which both teams' fullbacks and halfbacks continually foiled intensive attacks--with a valuable from the 20 m.p.h. north wind...
...Elections Committee requests the purchase of one (it may be inexpensive) padlock for use in House elections. Report of the Leverett House Elections Committee