Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang of car thieves. At a roadblock in Hildesheim, a town 18 miles outside Hannover, police searched a car and found wigs, rubber masks and two pistols; the occupants confessed they were on their way to rob a bank. In the fashionable Grünewald section of West Berlin, a brothel operator griped about a sudden shortage of customers: "Clients don't like it when the place is crawling with cops. The girls are getting lonely...
...failing health, desperately wants the book to be finished, and it seems he has some grave personal stake in the matter. A series of flashbacks detail the interactions of a Communist cell in Berlin circa 1928. The major "failing" involved is a missed opportunity to kill Hitler, or so the old man perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just...
...whom the managers of the Back Room at the Idler shamelessly describe to me as "the best singer in Boston," sings at the same next Wednesday, starting at 9 p.m. Rishell is a good blues guitarist and plays some slide; he's got a great version of the Irving Berlin song "Walking Cane," popularized of late by Leon Redbone. Molly Malone, whose picture ran on this page some weeks ago so I needn't remind you of her 40s blues style, plays tonight and Sunday night at the Back Room. Gene Stamell, a warm, animated folkie sings and plays guitar...
...murder of Schleyer will unquestionably increase the tension inside West Germany. In Hamburg, West Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, security was increased around officials. In Bonn, concertinas of barbed wire encircle government buildings, sandbagged gun emplacements protect door ways and guards with submachine guns patrol the grounds. The limousines of government officials speed along city streets tailed by escort autos with automatic weapons poking out from windows. Top-level businessmen constantly vary their daily schedules (making it difficult for terrorists to set traps for them) and are accompanied everywhere by bodyguards. (That did not help Schleyer. His three bodyguards were killed...
...double-barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...