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...were heavy thoughts, sad thoughts to people who had learned long ago to build hope on frail foundations. There were little groups of East Berliners who stood at the gaps in the Wall, watching the Western influx although they expected no visitors. Near the Friedrichstrasse Station, one old woman shook hands with every willing Westerner. "My son fled after it had become a crime to flee," she explained. "So he can't come. Still, it's good to see you." Whispered a grizzled World War I veteran: "Who in a prison isn't pleased when there...
Walk in the Park. What makes a good Red spy? In Georgiev's case it seems to have been Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization speech to the 20th Soviet Party Congress. This so shook his ideological faith, Georgiev explained, "that I felt theoretically unstable." So unstable, said the prosecutor, that the defendant hardly had time to unpack his bags before he was in touch with a chap from the CIA. There followed a walk in Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really...
Will of the Majority. Last February, 400 officers stood on the Maiquetia airport tarmac to see Betancourt off on a trip to visit President Kennedy in Washington. Ignoring protocol, Betancourt shook hands with one and all. On his return, he told 1,200 officers all about the trip. Last month, when Castroite terrorists tried to wreck the presidential election, Defense Minister General Antonio Briceño Linares went on radio and TV with an election-eve speech: "There will be no disorder, there will be no civil war. Only the will of the majority of Venezuelans will exist...
...Look shook the dust from its collection of old photographs, ran off 1,000,000 copies of an edition titled Kennedy and His Family in Pictures, which sold for a dollar. In France, the weekly picture magazine Paris Match devoted itself to the widow. "Hommage a Jackie Kennedy," read the cover message; the previous issue had had a cover picture of Jackie at the funeral. Inside, the magazine recapitulated her life in pictures. In reminding French readers about Texas, it also included a full-color shot of Dallas waitresses in abbreviated togas serving drinks by a pool ("On the terrace...
Last week stubborn Lafayette put three men on Bradley, and sometimes there were five. He still shook loose for 27 points-including a basket in the last 2 sec. that tied the game and sent it into overtime. With 35 sec. left in the overtime period and the Tigers trailing by two points, he sank another clutch shot-and the game went into double overtime. Then Bradley coolly dumped in two free throws, and Princeton pulled the game out, 69-64. Three days later, he scored 31 points as the Tigers sank Navy, 80-76. That brought Bradley...