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...erecting their barricades across most of the 80 border-transit points last week, desperate clusters of East Berliners were still trying to break out to freedom. Only a few were successful. One elderly man and wife crawled on hands and knees across a cemetery near the boundary as "Vopos" strung barbed wire only 20 yds. away. A young married couple swam the Teltow Canal with their four-year-old child perched on his father's shoulders. A couple of East Germans returning from a late movie, saw the tanks, sprinted across to the American sector just in time...
...perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes from beating one another up, but prohibit fraternizing between the teams. He must make split-second decisions with confident finality, and he must be, or at least appear, totally immune to criticism. Says Veteran Charlie Berry, 58, of the American League: "You go into this business knowing that they...
...savage rituals were beginning again in the sleazy native "locations" of bustling Nairobi. Most whites on isolated farms were again carrying guns at all times. At mealtime, doors were unlocked only to let servants in and locked again after they had served the food. Barbed-wire barriers were strung across garden paths and floodlights left on throughout the night. Alarm sirens and clusters of distress rockets topped every farmhouse...
...Washington St. in Boston, models wearing $30-$50 dresses are being strung up wit nooses and riddled with arrows...
...Many Sides. With occasionally effective theatrical moments, the play is strung out in pageant-caliber tableaux, beginning with the moment when 22-yearold Martin Luther was received into the order of Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt. Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child...