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...surplus General Electric J47 jet engine complete with afterburner, the same power plant used in the F-86 Sabre jet of Korean war fame. The young dragster encased his engine in a 400-lb. aluminum body mounted on four wheels, added a pair of eight-foot parachutes for more braking power, and announced himself ready to beat the record. "If this thing ever takes off, it'll never come down," he said...
...when a solemn three-minute hush was officially decreed in West Berlin, the city rocked instead to a deafening cacophony. East German loudspeakers responded with Communist marching songs. The klaxonfest might have gone on for hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross at the fuming Grenzpolizei (border police). The West...
...twelve-mile straightaway in his jet-powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long slide...
...cynically gives exit visas to the aged and infirm who are of no use at home, an average of 1,500 a month come over the border legally. An estimated 16,000 more per month arrive illegally, either packed in the holds of fishing junks or by climbing the eight-foot fence that runs along the 22-mile land border with China. Under the tacit rules of the game, those refugees who make it into town are usually ignored by the police...
...despite their criticism, Berliners were grateful that the opera was there, mindful that a mere three miles to the east, near the Brandenburg Gate, grim East German Volkspolizei stood guard over a smaller but far less attractive "Wailing Wall"-the eight-foot barrier of concrete and barbed wire that has turned West Berlin into a ghetto of freedom...