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...earned the reputation of being the worst polo player in the U.S. Army, and mastered the day's standard tactics of how to attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly in marksmanship-particularly on getting...
When the 101st Airborne was surrounded at the Battle of the Bulge, Abrams led the relief column into Bastogne with an attack that was watched with un abashed professional admiration by Panzer Commander Fritz Bayerlein. Later, Abrams led the dash to the Rhine, moved so fast that he captured an astonished lieutenant general and his staff at their desks. Fighting far out in front of the Third Army, Abrams was frequently cut off. "They've got us surrounded again," he once said, "those poor bastards." Said General George Patton of his aggressive tank commander: "I'm supposed...
...scheduled 5,000-marcher protest against German NATO Panzer divisions now training in Wales fizzled out: only 400 marchers appeared. British labor refused a C.N.D. plea for a two-day strike against the resumption of nuclear testing. More important was the effect on Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 workers, and the backbone of the Labor Party. A year ago the T.U.C. embarrassed Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell by voting a resolution urging Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament. Meeting for the annual conference last week in the wake of Russia's new tests...
...atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any cause-even their own freedom-as is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather be Red than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...reluctant than the Communist Pathet Lao. Stiffened by Communist regulars from North Viet Nam, Pathet Lao bands have spread over the land while the talking went on, until fully half of Laos is under their control. The Pathet Lao advance, said a Western diplomat, is not "a push, drive, Panzer or pincer movement-just a leisurely walk through the jungle...