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...makes his feelings known in any way that will not land him in jail. Hotel clerks save their haughtiest look for Russian travel groups. Even the B-girls are unfriendly. "We always recognize a Russian by his pointed shoes," says a miniskirted blonde at Dresden's Café Prag. "We refuse, of course." Not that the East Germans think much kindlier of their other East European neighbors. They have their own Polish jokes...
...morning the train is in Menindee, where paddle-wheelers used to p!y the café-au-lait-colored Darling River. From Menindee, a water pipe runs beside the track for 75 miles to the parched mining city of Broken Hill. A man must live in Broken Hill for eight years just to qualify for work in the lead, zinc and silver mines of this hard, uncompromising, union-ruled town. The train flits by a clump of "humpies" (aborigine huts built of empty gasoline drums). The kids wave...
Tourists sightseeing among the shops and cafés on West Berlin's festive Kurfurstendamm were startled last week at the spectacle of a distinguished, middle-aged man with yellow paint splattered over his head and onto the shoulders of his blue blazer. He was walking back and forth carrying a large hand-lettered sign that read: TU [Technical University] PROFESSOR-UNPOPULAR WITH THE COMMUNISTS
Last week, when Koenigs went to have lunch in a student caféteria, he saw a 5-ft. by 12-ft. banner in the entrance demanding the expulsion of "NOFU denouncers." He asked the caféteria manager to have the banner taken down. The manager refused, so Koenigs took out his penknife and cut out the offending words...
...course I dreaded retiring that night, for I knew that sleep would bring fulsome terrors anew. But neither caf feine nor amphetamines had any effect and I nodded. I dozed...