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Freedom Tunnel. It was engineered by 30 volunteer workers, many of them university students, who had managed earlier to escape from East Germany. From the basement of an abandoned bakery at 97 Bernauer Strasse, in West Berlin's French sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times...
...East would see it as Vatican recognition of Israel, an interpretation that even the revised draft takes pains to dispel. There were smiles and titters when Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini rose to charge that it was too kind to the Jews, who instead should be urged to abandon their offensive practices against Christians. By the end of the debate, however, most observers felt that the final declaration would be considerably strengthened-if only because opposition to it was so irrelevant...
...between the legitimate and illegitimate Bonapartes by dividing them into the famille Impériale and the famille civile. The Emperor supported an immense number of them out of the privy purse and even allowed the women to retain the title of princess, although they were technically supposed to abandon it on marriage. One of the most persistent social embarrassments to the court was Count Léon Bonaparte, Napoleon's illegitimate son by a lady-in-waiting, who publicly claimed a right to the Crown, pestered the Emperor for lifelong handouts, and died penniless and insane...
...committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
...heart the Baltimore cops' advice to run when attacked [June 26] and am now vigorously practicing wind sprints. However, one difficulty has arisen: my fiancée, who is addicted to wearing high heels, is hard pressed to comprehend that when trouble appears I shall be forced to abandon...