GERMANY: Slightly Chipped

The British learned something last week about the durability of Nazi military engineering. They set off 50,000 pounds of TNT in order to obliterate a huge concrete flak tower in Berlin's Tiergarten. When the smoke and dust had cleared, the structure merely bulged slightly; it had only been chipped.

German emotions were evidently durable, too. From the ranks of watching Berliners came a spontaneous gust of cheers.

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