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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...
West of the Wall, it looked like business and pleasure as usual. Warm weather piled up Europe's shiniest traffic jams in Berlin streets. Sailboats shimmied on the Wannsee. Just outside rifle range of Ulbricht's wasteland, Kurfürstendamm shop windows were mink-lined. But for all its air of defiant normalcy. West Berlin last week breathed suspicion and uncertainty. Dismayed at the Kennedy Administration's hints of concessions over Berlin, its leaders warned gravely that the people's nerves were wearing tissue-thin. Trumpeted Bild-Zeitung's front page: is GERMANY NOW BEING...
...picture layout on West Germany was magnificent. Pierre Boulat, in his picture of the Kurfürstendamm, has captured with a camera what the impressionists were conveying on canvas...
...West Berlin's big Kaufhaus des Westens, scare buying tapered off after a few days ; citizens jammed the Kurfürstendamm's fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...
When some Deputies arrived from Helmstedt, only a few officials were there to say welcome. Some crowds gaped as one $5,000 Mercedes-Benz after another whisked Deputies around the city, while their expensively furred wives went to eat cake and whipped cream in coffeehouses along the fashionable Kurfürstendamm. But a Berlin newspaper remarked tartly, when well-fed Deputies had difficulty squeezing into the student-size seats in the Technological Institute auditorium, temporary home for the Bundestag: "These benches weren't made to accommodate representatives of the West German economic miracle...