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...crystalline as time and legend have etched it. The first encounter, on April 25, 1945, took place at Strehla, 18 miles upstream from Torgau; it involved a U.S. reconnaissance team of the 69th Infantry Division, led by Lieut. Albert Kotzebue. Three hours later another patrol, under Lieut. William D. Robertson, came upon a group of Soviet infantrymen near Torgau. Inching out onto the girders of a wrecked bridge over the Elbe, Robertson embraced Lieut. Alexander Silvashko of the 173rd Rifle Regiment...
...bombarded consumers with an advertising campaign designed to convince them to pick AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T operators encourage callers to choose their company with each collect call they assist, while actor Cliff Robertson (who one AT&T executive described as "literally dripping with integrity") declares to TV viewers that "the more you hear, the better we sound...
NICE TO COME AND SEE US BUSH read a sign held by two camel-borne nomads at a refugee camp in central Sudan, which is struggling to accommodate some 600,000 starving Ethiopians. Accompanied by his wife Barbara, dozens of officials, private figures like TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, and a gaggle of reporters, Vice President George Bush was on a six-day swing through famine-plagued Africa that also took him to Mali and Niger. "When you see a little child a year old weighing five pounds," he said, "you better start trying to press leaders who are unwilling...
...Cousy, the smoothest passer basketball had ever seen, a man who both guarded and coached Oscar Robertson, says without the merest reservation, "Bird is simply the best who ever played this silly game." He includes Center Bill Russell, Cousy's Boston teammate, whose presence had the most to do with the Celtics' eleven National Basketball Association championships in 13 years. By basketball's nature, it is fundamentally a pivotman's game, the expected province of the Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Philadelphia 76er Moses Malone, but Forward Bird forwardly deposed Malone as the league's MVP last...
...Bird, will he begin with all of the things they could not do, and then wonder? Is it that Gretzky knew precisely where his teammates were heading, or did he put the puck in a place that made them proceed there? Somewhere far below Wilt Chamberlain in points and Robertson in assists, Bird should be just a respectable presence on all of the lists. But two men in one class are too few for a list. Anyone who really wants to know why they were the best will have to have seen them...