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...revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington Correspondent Loye Miller flew to Bonn and Berlin with Vice President Johnson to augment TIME...
...clusters of East Berliners were still trying to break out to freedom. Only a few were successful. One elderly man and wife crawled on hands and knees across a cemetery near the boundary as "Vopos" strung barbed wire only 20 yds. away. A young married couple swam the Teltow Canal with their four-year-old child perched on his father's shoulders. A couple of East Germans returning from a late movie, saw the tanks, sprinted across to the American sector just in time...
Down the long sweep of the Grand Canal came the gondola, a slender vessel reminiscent of older, statelier times. But there was something that looked like a propeller shaft projecting from the craft's bottom; the gondolier had abandoned his classic, nonchalant stand at the stern to crouch at the center; and the boat emitted wild gusts of fumes and roars that shook the lagoon city into outrage...
...gondoliers have gone on strike before (twelve times in the past 16 years), as their trade has dwindled steadily since the 18th century, when they reigned as kings over the Grand Canal. But this time Gondolier Macropodio inspired the strikers, instead of merely beaching their boats, to mock, not fight, the opposition...
...noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...