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Meanwhile, the East-West barrier in Berlin itself exploded with new violence. Now, for the first time, German police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to escape by jumping into the net of West Berlin firemen on the street below. But East Berlin cops dashed up to head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers...
Each night the crack of gunfire along the frontier signaled another escape-or failure. Despite the odds, 50 new refugees made it to freedom every 24 hours. But it was getting tougher, for the Communists were building the barrier higher and broader. Hearing the news from home, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, visiting the U.S., grimly told a Manhattan audience that whatever else is negotiated, "that wall in Berlin must come down...
...despite their criticism, Berliners were grateful that the opera was there, mindful that a mere three miles to the east, near the Brandenburg Gate, grim East German Volkspolizei stood guard over a smaller but far less attractive "Wailing Wall"-the eight-foot barrier of concrete and barbed wire that has turned West Berlin into a ghetto of freedom...
This treatment constitutes nothing less than deliberate evasion. Bender raised the question of scholarships to show that "no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education." The median family income of scholarship holders rose from $4,900 in 1952 to $7,800 in 1960, Bender reported, and "Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families." This point, one of Bender's most serious concerns, is entirely omitted from the News Office release...
...Only a handful of American colleges have total endowments as large as our financial aid capital funds. Yet despite this extraordinary outpouring of generosity, which can hardly be expected to continue at this pace indefinitely, no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education...