Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces of real estate have ever fitted the definition of no man's land quite so thoroughly as the 21-acre site of Berlin's old Potsdam railroad station. During the war, Allied bombers pounded the place into rubble. In 1945, the ruins became part of the Russian sector of the occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend...
Tensions between the divided halves of the city have relaxed somewhat since the signing of the four-power Berlin accord. The most recent sign: East Berlin has allowed the West Berlin government to buy the station property -for $10 million. The West Berliners plan to develop the land for commercial purposes, but the sale came about so suddenly when East Berlin finally decided to sell that details have not been worked...
Acquisition of the site will also help straighten out several roads that had to be detoured around it. Even so, the Potsdam station is evidently not going to yield to liberation without a struggle. On the instructions of worried West Berlin officials, workmen last week were stringing lines of barbed wire along its boundaries. There were fears that curious West Berliners, poking around in the ruins, might be crushed by the crumbling walls of the old Haus Vaterland dance hall, which stood near the station ruins, or blown up by unexploded bombs and artillery shells left there since World...
...radiant union all the qualities which guide mankind to perfection." The general, as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928, wrote: "Nothing is more characteristic of the genius of the American people than is their genius for athletics." The Führer envisaged the 1936 Games in Berlin -the last time they were held on German soil-as a showcase for the Third Reich and Aryan racial supremacy...
Into this tradition was born Robert James Fischer. His father was a physicist from Berlin, his mother a nurse born in Switzerland and raised in the U.S. They were divorced when Bobby was two. When his mother went to work, Bobby was left in the care of his older sister Joan. She kept him amused by playing board games with him in their three-room walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When Monopoly and Parcheesi palled, Joan bought a cheap plastic chess set at the local candy store. She was eleven at the time and Bobby was six, and together they...