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Like prideful vintners everywhere, the winegrowers along the banks of West Germany's Rhine and Moselle Rivers tend their vineyards with loving care and pray fervently that the inexplicable magic of sun, rain and vines will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook...
...aimed their heaviest salvos at Ike's and Monty's own military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough in the Bulge; Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that Lee and Meade should have equal time to reply to their critics, an editorial...
Bonn naturally wants NATO to plan for halting a Soviet offensive at the Elbe, rather than at the Rhine. But such a goal is admittedly impossible to achieve, and nuclear retaliation must be the primary objective. Yet, America can afford to sustain its NATO troops at their present force, if only to avert European fears and neutralistic repercussions. Besides, an adequate European ground force is vital to protect the missile sites which would launch the nuclear reprisal...
...Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first Allied bridgehead over the Rhine), went on to command a corp in Korea, finally served as commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (1953-55) before retiring and joining Interlake's exectutive staff...
...everywhere up and down the Ohio. The Atomic Energy Commission alone has poured $1.7 billion into huge nuclear plants in Kentucky and Ohio. Steelmen have spent close to $1 billion expanding their plants, while so many chemical companies have come in that the Ohio now surpasses Germany's famed Rhine as the world's most important "chemical river." For power to drive the new industry, Ohio valley electric companies, led by American Gas & Electric, have already spent $1.4 billion for a chain of 25 huge plants generating 9,250,000 kw. All told, some 500 companies have spent $10.5 billion...