Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years later, as chief of the U.S. air forces in Europe LeMay was an architect of the Berlin airlift. One day LeMay flew to Berlin, found himself waiting on the runway for 40 minutes. Back in Frankfurt, he told his staff: Get it fixed " In three days, when he dropped in again, the delay had been reduced to five minutes. "See if you can get it better," he grunted...
...detente had supposed. Last week, as the U.S. and Soviet Foreign Ministers addressed the United Nations' General Assembly, each enjoined the other not to intrude on his country's sphere of influence. Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed the U.S. resolve to protect West Germany and West Berlin from aggression. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko emphasized the Soviet Union's determination to retain its hold on Eastern Europe and warned that Russia would not allow any outsider "to snatch even one link" from the Socialist community of nations...
...cause.) Of course German policemen have been brutal, but even the most hot-eyed disciples of Herr Herbert Marcuse can hardly believe that they throw stones. One further "accomplishment" out of many. From May 27-31 SDS-led "students" occupied the Germanic Seminar of the Free University of Berlin. I saw and smelled, all too vividly, the results of this liberation. (There had not been the slightest provocation on the part of the professors in the department: quite the contrary.) The liberators renamed the building "Rosa Luxemburg Institut"--an insult to the memory of a noble and cultivated woman...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:45-4:15 p.m.). The National Drag Racing Championships from Indianapolis; and International Figure Skating from West Berlin...
...major exhibition is the best way to sort things out." To prepare the show, Lee and his curator, Wai-Kam Ho, who was born and educated in China, have traveled from Berlin to Tokyo, assembled objects from ten different countries. Yet the impact of the exhibit lies less in the individual pieces than in the way they unite to convey the spirit of a century...