Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Iron Curtain is less rigid than it used to be, Western newsmen are still welcomed cautiously in East Germany. After arriving in Leipzig, 90 miles southwest of the Berlin Wall, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan discovered that their time was not to be entirely their own. "The authorities," Rademaekers says, "had organized a togetherness program stretching over two weeks." Reluctantly, G.D.R. officials gave in to the correspondents' request to split up: Rademaekers traveled east to the Polish border, while Nelan went as far south as "Saxon Switzerland" near the Czech border...
...things began indicating that the revolution was ending. Those trapped in the Carrera sensed the lessening fire, sometimes too soon. For instance, as I was typing in my room early Thursday, a man asked if he could look out the window, which overlooks La Moneda. As he opened the curtain, thwack! came the shot from below. Before I could crawl over and throw him out of my room, he had taken another peek, and we had taken another round. But after three days of entombment in the Carrera he, like everybody else, had begun thinking of other things...
...curtain would then close in December in the NCAA post-season tournament with Harvard bowing out in either the quarter or semifinal round, and an otherwise successful season would end on a uniformly sour note...
Ride down the road with him and he may bet you $100 that you would not jump out of the car and turn a quick somersault. Hole up in a hotel room with him and he will invent a betting game that involves tossing tennis balls over a curtain rod. Ask him to play golf with a tennis racket and he will not only oblige but win. Show up at one of his tennis matches and he may line you up for a side bet. Want to play him yourself? What kind of handicap do you want? A wet Bulgarian...
...gains close to the Administration's 6.2% guideline-and so peacefully that man-days lost to strikes have been running at the lowest rate since 1964. Last week, however, negotiators began moving to the biggest test of whether this serenity can endure. Beaming in front of a brocade curtain in a Milwaukee hotel, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock announced the union's choice of a strike target when contracts expire Sept. 14:Chrysler...