Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev's newest tactic to shake the free world was to give the West six months to make Berlin "a free city," disengaged from the cold war and demilitarized in the heart of Communist East Germany. It brought predictable cries from critics of the Western allies' basic positions-of-strength foreign policy that it was time to think through "flexible," "positive" solutions for the whole of divided Germany. Yet Khrushchev's belligerence was convincing evidence-particularly to West Germany-that the policy of making West Berlin a showcase of prosperous freedom was successful...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had unduly alarmed West Berliners with legalistic press-conference talk about dealing with East German puppet Communists as "agents" of the U.S.S.R. in "perfunctory, routine matters," backed a strong statement that the U.S. was "solemnly committed'' to West Berlin's defense, would never abandon "the people of West Berlin to hostile domination." Vice President Nixon, visiting Britain (see The Vice-Presidency), proclaimed that "we already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well...
...Yeah, man, I know; the Buddha kick. I remember I was on it for two weeks when I saw the wild Frisco nights from my Chinatown pad. Man, that was some living; creeping through the back alleys at night, yogi parties, the red lights of the east end, the drowning sounds of Powell Street in the afternoon, and in the early evening as the sun set on the bay the soft odors of won-ton soup drifting up through the air vents. Crazy! But take my advice, and give up the Oriental bit, and go domestic. Contemplation, inward communion...
Years ago Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, began collecting references to an ancient temple of Diana that apparently flourished for more than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black...
...logical." Said John Barriger, president of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, who drew up the operational report for the Central and Pennsy: "It would be perfectly natural and constructive for other railroads to integrate into a second system. Then you would have two equally balanced systems in the east...