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...Tunnel (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* The documentary that resulted from NBC's widely criticized backing of Berlin students who dug a 450-ft. underground passageway into East Berlin to rescue 59 men, women and children from behind the Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...coarse sackcloth robe worn over a hairshirt, she sits alone in her stone-floored cell. Her food is bread, water, an occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look into a chapel, and down a narrow passageway there is another barred window where she takes her daily communion. In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower. Not since she closed the door behind her 16 years ago has she ever left this confined area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Nun's Story | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...passenger on an airliner "sky-jacked" by unshaven pirates. Annie was taken to the island of Tributo, where General Mustashio Toro held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful lot of us admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic Battlefront | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than allow the lines of the tower to be interrupted by truck entrances; supplies will be delivered to the building through a subterranean passageway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Without a Dissenting Line | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

There was a faint touch of detente in the Berlin air. The U.S. removed its M48 tanks from the threatening spot at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, the Friedrichstrasse passageway to the Communist half of the city; next day the Russians pulled back their own tracked T-54 tanks from the sector boundary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Toward Meeting No. 89 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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