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...East-West Football Game (NBC, 4:45-7:30 p.m.). From San Francisco...
...there was not a hint of those old familiar ultimatums. A Khrushchev message to East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht pointedly omitted any reference to a separate peace treaty; Izvestia's chief spokesman on Germany, Commentator Nikolai Polyanov, asked "What's next?" in a foreign affairs article, but the question was aimed at other cold war issues. Not once since President Kennedy's firm stand in Cuba, in fact, have the Communists tried their tough stuff at the most critical East-West boundary of them all. For the West it was a lesson to keep in mind...
History's Guide. By offering their sealed boxes, the Russians were of course conceding nothing of value. Indeed, they gave scant support to the hopeful new thesis now abroad, that Khrushchev after Cuba might take a genuinely new, flexible approach to negotiation of the major East-West issues. Some Westerners excitedly spoke of grasping new opportunities while Moscow was off balance: an access deal for Berlin, perhaps even some kind of German reunification...
...calendar: they will recall a date by saying, "It happened the month before the Wall." It is a direction finder: strangers in search of a Gartenstrasse bordello are told to follow the Wall until they see the wooden screens that the Communist border guards put up to end East-West flirtation...
...Wall truncated it, visiting sightseers mount wooden stands to gawk at the bare, dead city beyond. "In one quick look," they nod, "you can see what Communism is like." Berliners proudly point out each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations against East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht and his commissars...