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THIS crude grey parapet is no proper wall at all. It is an unsymmetrical thing, uncouth and raw, like a wound made by a jagged instrument. In many places it already is crumbling, but the Communists keep building it up, making it even higher. At first you wonder why it...
Died. The Rev. Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General...
ASTOR: A pair of biting and powerful British films about angry young men on the way to nowhere. The much celebrated ROOM at the Top has all the punch of John Braine's novel, thanks to the acting of Simone Signoret and Lawrence Harvey. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is...
To get the job done right, with whatever it takes, General Abrams is honing his 3rd Armored to a razor's edge. Each man spends some 135 days a year on field maneuvers. The division's tanks and combat vehicles are kept stocked with a full supply of...
Meanwhile, details of Menderes' execution slowly became known, in spite of Turkish censorship. Brought back from a near-fatal suicide attempt, the former Premier was hanged as soon as he was declared fit by prison doctors. Apologizing for the "trouble" he had caused his jailers, Menderes was taken aboard...