Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to exude the kind of allure that sets the mysterious Geiger counters which measure glamor clicking like subway turnstiles. Says Starmaker David Selznick: "She is going to be a big star. She supplies the need and hunger of a kind of glamor girl. She has a genuine glamor atmosphere." Says an Italian movie fan: "I call her the aperitif. She stimulates...
...Free German Youth) members should quit work at 2:30 p.m. to join in. Truckloads of blueshirts came from camps, others poured by trolley and subway into assembly points along Berlin's east-west border. In ones and twos the Reds drifted casually into the Western sectors, suddenly congealed into solid, marching columns in three separate districts...
...supplies were badly fouled up. A Red commissary officer was jailed for allowing 380 tons of meat to rot. East Germany's overburdened transport system broke down, stranded thousands of blueshirts en route to Berlin. And though East German police barred 165 East-West streets, closed 30 westbound subway stations to protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector to have a look around; 1,590 asked for asylum. Most of the hooky-playing blueshirts, however, dutifully trooped back to their Communist festival, their one furtive look...
Goodman's fears were right. On Tuesday night he was routed from bed at 1 a.m. and brought before German officials. He was expelled from the delegation and, hearing that more drastic steps were planned, escaped by subway to the American sector...
...largest lecture room was once a subway car barn, its campus is still the city streets, its study halls are still the handiest park benches. Yet in three lean years, the Free University of Berlin has grown into a vigorous symbol of academic liberty. While its famed pre-Nazi counterpart, in the East sector of Berlin, withers and dies from an overdose of Communist dialectic, the Free University may well become the birthplace of a more widespread liberal education than Germany has ever before attained. Last week the young institution got a generous gift of the one thing it needed...