Word: autobahns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impasse. The scene, as so often in the past, was the autobahn corridor that passes through Communist-ruled East Germany between West Berlin and West Germany. As a routine function, Soviet guards stop U.S. troop convoys at checkpoint stations, count the soldiers-and then wave them...
Rewarding Investment. The worried-looking third member of the group, one Erwin Tiebel, merely served as courier for Felfe and Clemens. The spies transmitted their information by microfilm hidden in food cans sent to East Germany, by drops along the Autobahn, and by frequent trips on U.S. Air Force courier flights to Berlin, which they boarded under the pretext of being on Gehlen business. The three got a total of $78,000 from Moscow. For the investment, the Soviets got 15,000 microfilm photographs of West German intelligence documents, 20 spools of tape recordings, numerous verbal and radio reports, including...
...welcome them or respectful crowds cheering "Es lebe hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...
Such evenings leave audiences aglow with delight and thundering applause, and Wolfgang basking in a sense of his mission. "We have found a new way of presenting organ music," he said, steering his van down the empty Autobahn. "My shop has become just a hobby; music is now my profession...
...route, the radiator froze in the subzero weather. That fixed, they were only a few miles farther when a tire blew out. The kids were crying and the wives shivering with cold and panic when, at last, they arrived at Drewitz, the most heavily guarded checkpoint on the entire Autobahn to Berlin. It was no time to stop and reconsider...