Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop the atomic bomb. It was the Truman Doctrine that shattered the long U.S. tradition of peacetime isolation by supporting Greece and Turkey against Communist threats. It was Truman's Marshall Plan that committed U.S. resources to the rebuilding of Europe. Later Truman defied the Soviet blockade of Berlin and risked war by authorizing the airlift. Still later he met the Communist invasion of South Korea by ordering U.S. forces into the field...
...Opera House, marking Britain's historic entry into the European Economic Community. The celebration is part of an eleven-day "Fanfare for Europe" planned by the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, at a cost of $825,000. Among its flourishes will be a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall, a "Poets of Europe" reading at Lincoln's Inn, and a soccer match between all-star teams from the old Common Market Six, and the three new members: Britain, Ireland and Denmark...
...citizens, the treaty opens the way for international acceptance of the German Democratic Republic, long a pariah state acknowledged only by the Communist and Arab blocs and scattered sympathizers. In the 43 days before the treaty was signed, 15 countries, led by Pakistan, accorded recognition to East Berlin. Last week they were joined by Greece and Cyprus-bringing the total of nations that recognize East Germany to 49. Denmark, Canada and Australia are expected to follow suit. France, Britain and the U.S. will probably exchange ambassadors with East Berlin before the two Germanys enter the United Nations next fall, though...
...taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...
...other actors help a great deal. Jeannie Berlin, May's daughter, is adept at playing the same sort of antic stupidity as May and making it not only recognizable but also winning. Eddie Albert is spectacular, a figure to strike terror into any suitor's heart; his character is a combination of George Babbitt and Eric...