Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen.
Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German...
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Luftwaffe. Of a scheduled 100,000 men, the air force now has about 64,000, nearly all volunteers. Under command of Lieut. General Josef Kammhuber, boss of all German night fighters in World War II, the Luftwaffe is already airborne and climbing fast. So far, five Luftwaffe wings are flying...
O Divine Simplicity. The rambunctious Defense Minister has settled down a bit since 1957, when he married a brewer's attractive daughter, a summa cum laude graduate of the same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max...