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...began as a sort of one-way student exchange program last Aug. 13, the day the ugly barrier split the city. To seven liberal arts and science students from West Berlin's Free University and other schools, it was clear that the Wall would cut off hundreds of classmates who lived in East Berlin but studied in the Western half of the city. Over beer and coffee in a cafe, they devised a daring scheme to outwit the Reds. Cutting classes and neglecting their books, the students blandly named themselves Das Reiseburo (the Travel Bureau) and swung into operation...
...track barriers that once seemed as formidable as the Great Wall of China are crumbling like castles in the sand. In a single season indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...they stood on the threshold of independence, Algeria's Moslems could feel like men who had broken through a time barrier. The F.L.N.'s first Premier and grand old man Ferhat Abbas wrote despairingly in 1934: "If I had discovered an Algerian nation I would be a nationalist. Men who die for a patriotic ideal are honored and respected. But I would not die for an Algerian fatherland because such a fatherland does not exist. I cannot find it. I questioned history. I questioned the living and the dead. I searched through the cemeteries. Nobody could speak...
There is, however, no doubt that the publication will begin permanent publication next fall. "We have full support of the Harvard faculty and through them contacts with professors throughout the Americas," Barry Lando '61, organizer of the project, stated. "Money will be no barrier; we'll get it even if our 15 editorial board members have to put it up themselves...
...China permission to build a highway through the soaring Himalayas to link Nepal's capital, Katmandu, with Tibet's capital, Lhasa. The road not only opens Nepal to direct Communist influence but poses an immediate military threat to India by bringing the Red Chinese through the icy barrier of the Himalayas down to a connecting highway leading to the broad and populous plains of the Ganges River. "The security of India," said a worried Delhi official, "is directly tied up with the security of Nepal...