![]() Sixteen years ago these sunburned suburban schmoozers had all been soldiers who had happily helped defeat Der Fuehrer. When tired of arguing the un likelihood of NYC Mayor Robert Wagner running for a third term successfully without the backing of Tammany Hall, libations were replenished as the men brooded over the storm gathering in Berlin. That summer as the melodic sound of Connie Francis longingly asking “ Where the boys are” drifted over the lilacs from a neighbor’s transistor radio, the men at my family barbecue could be found shvitzing over the red-hot coals of the grill, shooting the breeze. The fate of Nathans Hot Dogs hung in the balance. ![]() The city divided up between the victors of WWII was located deep in the Soviet occupied parts of Germany and now Soviets were threatening to drag it behind the iron curtain. As the world poised for a showdown between those 2 cold warriors the USA and the Soviet Union, the risk of military conflict between the 2 heated up the summer of 1961 over the crisis in Berlin. ![]()
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