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...silver C-141 Starlifter transport last week whistled to a stop at Rhein-Main airbase near Frankfurt. Out of it filed a 65-man U.S. Army unit, the advance party for one of the largest troop airlifts ever undertaken. Within the next two weeks, a total of 12,000 U.S. fighting men, including two brigades of the Army's 24th Infantry Division, will be flown from their U.S. stations to join the 220,000-man U.S. Seventh Army in West Germany. In addition, 96 droop-nosed F-4 fighter-bombers will jet from Stateside bases to West Germany...
Hills & Vales. The American Alma Mater goes back to 1836, when the Unitarian author of Fair Harvard stole the Irish ditty Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. Before World War I, Yale lifted Germany's patriotic Die Wacht am Rhein for its own Bright College Years. Harvard mined the Marseillaise for On to Victory, and Columbia hitched Stand Columbia to Deutschland über Alles...
Often in total darkness, the troops debarked at Germany's Rhein-Main, Sembach and Ramstein airbases. As they moved down from the ramps, they were steered straight onto chow lines, where cooks from the German-based U.S. Seventh Army had a total of 20,000 piping-hot steaks and tons of French fries ready. At Rhein-Main, outside Frankfurt, one mess sergeant baked a 200-lb. cake in the shape of a tank...
...pipeline also promises to work an industrial transformation. Along its route four new refineries have already sprouted, two at Karlsruhe and two at Strasbourg; two more are under construction at Worth-Rhein and Mannheim north of Karlsruhe, and France is building a seventh refinery near Lyon. Moreover, work is already under way on a 156-mile extension of the pipeline from Karlsruhe into Bavaria, where at least four more refineries are planned by 1966. The Italians are also entering the area with a new pipeline from Genoa over the Alps into southern Bavaria. Before long, possibly 16 refineries...
...West Germany, a widespread pre-election press anxiety about Kennedy's youth"was coupled with old Adenauer's worries that some of Kennedy's advisers would be soft on Berlin. All this is forgotten. "The free world has a leader again," exulted Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung-and it didn't mean Adenauer. Frankfurter Allgemeine lauded Kennedy's Cabinet picking as "a masterpiece of natural political talent." Even Kennedy's firm demand that Bonn hike its contribution to help stanch the U.S. gold drain was accepted with equanimity. Bonn's earlier proposal...