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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, there had been hints of mutiny among Christian Democrats angered by Adenauer's highhanded methods, but in the end they were united by their desire to hang together and hold office. As more than a thousand electors gathered in the huge, marble Nazi-built East Prussia Hall in West Berlin, it was clear that Christian Democratic ranks were solid. Even Liibke's rival. Socialist Candidate Carlo Schmid, 62, hoped Lubke would be elected on the first ballot to save everybody time and effort. Delegates in the humid hall wandered out to the lobby for sausages, beer...
...holocaust that followed, help came quickly and heroically from U.S. servicemen. A marine rushed through a solid wall of flame to rescue a little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite...
...domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies on a wall. Some 1,700 ft. of rope hammered into the ice took them across in safety. Then came Camp Paradise, the first piece of flat slope they had seen in several thousand feet; Camp Fatigue, when at 15,000 ft. the altitude started to hit them; Balcony Camp, up another 1,800 ft. and just big enough for their tent with a 7,000-ft. drop below. The weather started to worsen, and they decided on a gamble: a dash...
...blood of your soldiers, which flowed in waves here," blared De Gaulle's voice over a thousand Lombardy loudspeakers, "and the blood of ours went to raise a double and magnificent harvest: the independence of Italy and the Latin brotherhood...
...were dropping everywhere. Tubs of water were available for dunking heat-exhaustion victims. "Even if they don't recover," said one veteran, "they are perfectly happy, because they have died on a hadj.'' The death rate for this year's pilgrimage was more than a thousand. Many were buried within twelve hours in unmarked graves in one of two vast cemeteries near Mecca and Jidda...