Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupation force in West Berlin totals about 4,000 men, mainly of the 6th Infantry Regiment, and the British and French account for the rest of an Allied garrison of about 11,000 troops. To supply them, the U.S. runs two to three convoys per week-three to ten trucks in each convoy-over the 110-mile, four-lane Autobahn between the border check point of Helmstedt, and Berlin (see map). The British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners...
...populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
Dick Murphy was Harvard's high scorer with a total of 285 points, placing second to Yale's Mac Blair, who tallied 291, the highest individual score in the history of the tournament. John Phelps, Ron Simon, Bill Granik, and Will Garrison also qualified. The Crimson's three runners-up were Jim Brown, John North and Shaun Scanlon...
Included in the large cast are Upton B. Brady '59 (Socrates), Daniel H. Garrison '59 (Strepsiades), and a chorus of seven Radcliffe girls, Reckford promises that it will be "a lively show...
...soft-headed way, as an effort to find a silver lining in the Iron Curtain. As it has turned out, it seems no more than an unfeeling attempt to make a little money. The hero of the story is a soulful Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really be Hungarians. Almost at once, the major starts to roll his ochi chernye at one of the passengers...