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STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...
...dozens of occasions, by rail and highway, has interviewed hundreds of East Germans over the years. He has often been close to his cover subject at rallies and press conferences: "I have even attached myself to Communist May Day parades and marched past his reviewing stand in Marx-Engels-Platz...
...families, split between the halves of the city, could not see their relatives. Fifty thousand East Berliners who regularly commuted to West Berlin were now cut off from their jobs by official decree. At the city's two biggest squares where East once met West, bustling Potsdamer Platz and the soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist...
...tumbling out of pubs, standing six deep in Hyde Park, the shouts went up: "Glad to see you, Ike," "Welcome," "Good for you, Ike." As the Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from which General Eisenhower had directed his victorious World War II armies (G.I.s called the square "Eisenhower Platz"), a husky, shirtsleeved man said: "We like him because we remember him from the war-that's why." As President Dwight Eisenhower stood West Point straight, arms spread high and wide above him, an old lady said: "My, he looks better-after being so sick...
Berlin's huge Marx-Engels Platz for Khrushchev's farewell appearance...