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...Hitler outlawed the races soon after he came to power in 1933 because he found them dishonest and degenerate, and converted the Sportpalast into a propaganda forum. World War II left it a gutted shell, but in 1953 a group of enterprising promoters slapped a new roof on the ruin, installed a new track, and the Six Days was back in business...
Stepping from the control house into East Berlin itself is a little like stepping into a de Chirico painting. There is an atmosphere of oppression which cannot adequately be depicted by sketching the physical ruin of the city. The number of people on the street drops, the number of automobiles is cut to about a quarter the number in the West, there are empty kiosks, banners ("The State Needs Everyone; Everyone Needs the State"), and wall-murals of workers, farmers, and technicians marching forward under the banner of the German Democratic Republic...
Bullhorns & Crushes. In a close presidential election, any one of these events might have turned into a decisive political issue. But in 1964, the election does not figure to be close, and it is hard to imagine a crisis of any size or scope that could ruin Johnson's prospects...
...advertisement in last week's Cambridge Chronicle, Dietz appealed for help to everyone who has "ever felt threatened and abused by selfish actions of an inconsiderate neighbor." The part-owner of a building on the corner of Palmer and Church streets charged that the two-story Coop bridge would "ruin" Palmer...
...cared a great deal more than he thought. By the time his two years at Harvard were up, he knew that he "belonged to an old, small, much-trodden country, where every field, every path, every ruin had its memories, where :very last corner had its story." It took lim seven more years to get back, but he was back to stay. If his book is "a no to my own boyhood, my own youth, even to my own parents," it is a yes to "the basic experiment with life" that made him a writer. For better or worse...