Word: bernauer
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...David Bernauer...
Freedom Tunnel. It was engineered by 30 volunteer workers, many of them university students, who had managed earlier to escape from East Germany. From the basement of an abandoned bakery at 97 Bernauer Strasse, in West Berlin's French sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times...
...blocks west of the Bernauer Strasse tunnel, where 57 East Berliners crawled to freedom last week, an escape of another sort was taking place. Concocted of cigar smoke and the reek of raw schnapps, a blur of spinning spokes and the beat of a brass band, this form of escape goes by the name of "Sportpalast Fever," and can be indulged in once a year when Berlin holds its famed, phantasmagoric Six-Day Bicycle Race...
...Chocolate Soldier (music by Oscar Straus; book by Rudolph Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson, "Americanized" by Stanislaus Stange and revised by Guy Bolton; produced by J. H. Del Bondio & Hans Bartsch) has tunes that can still send you out of the theater whistling. After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers...
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