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...postwar Germany, U.S. cars were derisively dubbed Strassen Kreuzer-street cruisers-because of their king size. Last week in Manhattan, Germany's Daimler-Benz showed off a new auto that is not just cruiser size but more like a battleship. Spanning 20½ ft. from stem to stern, The Grand Mercedes 600 is the world's longest auto. It is also one of the lowest: less than 5 ft. high, it has the low-slung lines of a dachshund. Boasting all the latest engineering innovations (disk brakes, adjustable pneumatic suspension system, fuel-injection 300-h.p. engine...
...this week it appeared that Berlin's envelopment and destruction would have to be total. Fear-crazed men fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...
...Strassen frei, Fenster zu!! Clear the streets! Close the windows!" bellowed imperious policemen patrolling the battle-scarred districts in armored cars. After nearly 50 policemen had been wounded they warned that anyone appearing at an open window would be shot. Despite the warning, curiosity was too much for three old women and for Charles Eray Mackay, a newsgatherer from New Zealand. Reporter Mackay ventured out on the street, the old women out on their balconies. All four were shot dead by the watchful police...
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