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At Stars & Stripes in Darmstadt - 1968

  Publishing the Spearhead required a weekly trip from Frankfurt to Stars & Stripes in Darmstadt, some 30 miles south. Above, David Flister (right), then Spearhead Editor, and Ken Robinson are engrossed in proofreading galley sheets in the Stripes composing room. That would be followed by final typesetting using the still-high-tech, hot-lead process. Smoking pipes were part of the uniform for budding journalists at the time.

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