Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the building of Walter Ulbricht's ugly Wall last summer had the city been so calmly sure that it would survive, free. The calm may be shattered again any day the Russians choose to get nasty, but in the West Berlin senate last week Mayor Willy Brandt proclaimed flatly that the Communists' war of nerves had failed...
From the West comes President Kennedy, with his regal wife, and splendid children; then the Queen of England, God bless her, with Prince Philip; President de Gaulle, alone; Adenauer and Willy Brandt; and finally various and sundry NATO allies, professors and military...
...gunfire along the frontier signaled another escape-or failure. Despite the odds, 50 new refugees made it to freedom every 24 hours. But it was getting tougher, for the Communists were building the barrier higher and broader. Hearing the news from home, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, visiting the U.S., grimly told a Manhattan audience that whatever else is negotiated, "that wall in Berlin must come down...
Born. To Willy Brandt, 47, West Berlin's scrappy mayor, while he was visiting New York City to receive the annual Freedom House Award, and his Norwegian wife, the former Rut Hansen, 41: a third son; in Berlin...
...through the glass sides of the block-long building as the crowd inside washed down cookies with Rhineland champagne. A fleet of taxis and Mercedes limousines flowed onto Bismarckstrasse, off RichardWagner-Platz, to deliver the cream of West Berlin society, the entire West Berlin Senate, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, Federal President Heinrich Lübke, retired U.S. General Lucius Clay, and 21 assorted ambassadors up from Bonn for the occasion. But for all the glitter, it was a subdued affair as opera openings go. There were black ties and evening gowns aplenty, but Lübke and Brandt, mindful...