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Given the confusion and the size of the mobs, it is astonishing that 80% got through within hours. Felix Frankfurter got through. Knute Rockne's health, mind and abilities were found to be acceptable. Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Sol Hurok, Samuel Goldwyn and Elia Kazan were examined at Ellis Island, as were Louis Koch, the mayor's father, and Immaculata Giordano, Governor Mario Cuomo's mother...
...Bergman's, or Francois Truffaut's. A picture's subject could be uniquely American, but its style would be self-consciously "artistic" (read European). Two Hollywood hits of 1967 strikingly assimilated these international trends: Bonnie and Clyde, originally offered to Truffaut to direct, and The Graduate, in which Berlin-born Director Mike Nichols ransacked the mannerisms of a dozen art- house auteurs to tell a story as American as plastics...
...world's most extraordinary border. Nowhere, with the possible exception of Berlin, is the contrast so stark. On one side of the blurry line stands an economic superpower, on the other a nation burdened with widespread poverty. "This is the only place I know where you can jump from the First World to the Third World in five minutes," says Julio Chiu, a bank executive in El Paso who grew up in Juarez...
...Emerald City as Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) rediscovers it is about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody...
...exchange took place on the Glienicker Bridge spanning the Havel River between Potsdam, East Germany, and West Berlin. The Soviet and East German & officials clustered at one end, the Americans, led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, at the other. From the Potsdam side, a bus containing some two dozen East Germans and Poles who had been imprisoned as spies for the West crept to the span's center. The passengers switched to a West German bus and rode to freedom. Moments later, a blue van drove from the West Berlin side to the same spot. Three...