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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Akademieplatz the wreckage continues. The restored Opera House looks naked against ruins, the access to the Brandenburg gate is framed with more ruins, and in many places restored apartment houses are only islands in the rubble. Even on Karl Marx A ee, the town's main street, one has the feeling that the new, tawdry apartment houses are merely a Potemkin Village. They are surrounded everywhere by ruins...
Upon arrival, Rosauro Luna, the leader of the group, discovered that the villagers were drinking water from a stagnant pool. The six therefore decided to make the installation of a water system their main project for the summer...
Hardly had the rose petals and champagne corks been swept up from the royal wedding of King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie than the Greeks were back at their favorite political sport of monarchy baiting. The main target was not the popular newlyweds, still off on their island honeymoon, but the bridegroom's pert mother, German-born Queen Frederika, 47, whose good looks and outspoken views have embroiled her in controversy ever since she came to Greece 26 years ago as the bride of the late King Paul...
...cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...
...that it was hard for her to absorb it, and in fact she never did," says her husband. "You know, a hit like that becomes a fashion, and having Julie at your party became a catch. She never got used to that. She was dazed by it all. Her main memory of it seems to be how hard it all was." But not quite so hard as seeing someone else do the movie...