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...many who are in uniform. These are the so-called quick-fix measures which we have invoked to improve the Western tactical position in Berlin and remind the Soviets that the city is not an open invitation to that variety of aggression which has been described as the salami, or one-slice-at-a-time, method...
...affluent society's phrase for what used to be known as salami tactics...
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had feared that the Communists were starting a new round of "salami" tactics against Berlin, and last week proved him right. Fortnight ago, Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's East German regime declared a five-day period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east...
...Berliners took the new rule calmly enough: they had known worse harassment before. Mainly affected would be West Germans visiting relatives in Communist East Berlin, and so far the passes were easy to get. The nagging question in everyone's mind was how thick the next slice of salami would...
...daring, has been, to use his favorite verb, denigrating Hollywood for years. "Hollywood has an advanced case of intellectual leprosy." he says. "It is sterile and bland. a place of languor and procrastination, of overwhelming provincialism." Hollywood's responses are equally engaging. "Susskind." says Oscar Levant, "is salami dipped in chicken fat." Yet there was Susskind. out in the Hollywood provinces last week, and not just to carry the battle to the enemy's home ground. He was there to show the languorous natives how to make motion pictures-and money. Among the Barbarians. Producing the screen version...