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Vodka & Cigarettes. Between Schnackenburg and Helmstedt, hundreds of work-corps youths are building the new wall. In some areas, the crews manage to seal off as much as six miles of the border a day. The fence weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across...
...barn is a run for sheep, roosters, hens and geese, and there is a pen for three raccoons that hide in a log. The children can also poke around in a good-sized Noah's Ark, where the rabbits sleep at night, a candy-striped Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house (no witch), a turreted castle with winding stairs (and "Stoop" signs for the adults), and a walk-in birdcage. In Mouseville, built to resemble a big cheese, they can study scurrying white mice, and in the Hurdy-Gurdy House, a monkey swings to music. Best of all. they...
...funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears. Toasting all the friends he never called back on the telephone, he turned the phial bottoms up and swallowed the rest of his life...
...month-long exhibit of his work (see color page), discovered that it had a popular, stimulating and controversial show. Said the museum's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler: "Gaudi's preoccupation with organic forms, his enthusiasm for texture, and the alarming Hansel-and-Gretel atmosphere his buildings occasionally produce, are today inevitably seen against the background of psychoanalysis as well as the history of architecture . . . Gaudi is not an architect to be imitated. But once lured into his world, no one is likely to remain indifferent to his innovations in expressive form...
Philco Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Eva Stern in Gretel...