Word: tempelhof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugee camps must be closed," snapped Ulbricht before a huge East Berlin press conference. RIAS, the U.S.-run radio station heard by hundreds of thousands of East Germans, must be "liquidated." And Tempelhof, the big airport in the heart of West Berlin, would have to go out of business. "The present danger, noise and nuisance of low-flying planes over the central districts of Berlin must cease," Ulbricht insisted indignantly...
...trucks churned out of Rio de Janeiro and took the road west, their springs creaking under all the paraphernalia of bureaucracy, from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on a new, jet-length runway every two minutes with Tempelhof-like precision. This week, before a crowd of 200,000, President Juscelino Kubitschek will officially move the Brazilian government into Brasilia, his $500 million new capital. Boasts Kubitschek: "We have turned our back on the sea and penetrated to the heartland of the nation. Now the people realize their strength...