Word: kurf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...
...week. An assassin picked as his target Rudi Dutschke, 28, a self-avowed revolutionary, leader of Germany's student unrest and author of fierce tirades against "repressive" European society. As Dutschke wheeled his bicycle away from the headquarters of his Socialist Student League on West Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, a young man who had been lying in wait fired three shots at him from a pistol. The bullets hit "Red Rudi" at close range in the chest and head...
Purple Rinse. Away from the Wall, prosperous West Berlin seemed almost carefree. Bundled in overcoats, citizens jammed the outdoor cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...
Shiny cars clogged West Berlin's broad Kurfürstendamm, while pedestrians window-shopped at fancy stores or looked for an empty seat at one of the many sidewalk cafes. Tourists were flocking in as never before, and savings accounts were at the record level of $366.5 million, $20 million higher than in early August last year. Although West Berlin's industry was beginning to feel the effects of the tapering West German economic boom, there were still job vacancies for 29,000 workers. The panicky exodus of thousands from West Berlin in the days immediately after...
After the long, perilous winter, spring finally arrived in West Berlin last week. Billowing sails dotted the placid Wannsee; plump matrons nibbled pastry in the sun at open-air cafés along the broad Kurfürstendamm; amidst budding willows in the Grunewald forest, lovers strolled. Even the Russians were infected with spring fever: at the Soviet war memorial just inside WTest Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate, the two old T-34 tanks on permanent display were given a coat of bright green paint by a crew of Red army soldiers...