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...Karl Marx Alice even the weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician's Apprentice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Celebrations for Some | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...were all together (burp), pardon me, for such a short time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Beckett & the Theater of the Concrete | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held up a Russian-made burp gun supplied to North Korean attackers, and said that Russia's complaints reminded him of a jar falsely labeled peaches. "Sir," he told the Soviet delegate, "I am in a position to let the world see what is inside-applesauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...dictum, "All political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." His army is made up of three-year conscripts from central China, but its officers and noncoms are largely proven cadres who served with distinction in the Korean war. The infantry is armed with a Chinese-made burp gun with not very great accuracy but good fire power, hand grenades, submachine guns and rifles. The light and heavy mortars, which have a surprising range, are also Chinese made, but the heavy artillery, tanks and planes are mostly of Soviet manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Never Again the Same | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Skyward Zigzag. Before Kaul had a chance to try and "clear out" the Chinese in NEFA, the Chinese struck first on Oct. 20. Some 20,000 burp-gun-toting infantry stormed over Thag La ridge and swept away a 5,000-man Indian brigade strung out along the Kechilang River. The surprise was complete, and dazed survivors of the Chinese attack struggled over the pathless mountains, where hundreds died of exposure. In Ladakh the Chinese scored an even bigger victory, occupying the entire 14,000 square miles that Peking claims is Chinese territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Never Again the Same | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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