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...cavernous marble and sandstone halls of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport are mostly empty now. Only two of 20 check-in counters are open to attend to the handful of commuter flights that arrive and depart each day. But while passenger traffic has dropped 80% in the past decade, there is no lack of noise around the airport, which Adolf Hitler built in the late 1930s as a grandiose portal to his thousand-year Reich. The city's plan to close Tempelhof to air traffic later this year and turn it into a public park has run into unexpected turbulence from...
...road and rail links to the city in an effort to prevent the Allies from setting up a unified government in the Western-controlled zones of postwar Germany. For the next ten months, U.S. Air Force C-54 and C-47 cargo planes landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport every three minutes, ferrying as much as 12,940 tons a day of food and fuel into the besieged city. The Soviets finally capitulated, but by the end of 1949 the West had new cause for worry: the Soviets had exploded an atomic bomb, ending the U.S. nuclear monopoly...
...Tempelhof Airport the occasional shiny C-54s and many battered C-47s landed at the daylight rate of one every three minutes. Scores of ten-ton trucks rolled out to meet them. One hundred and fifty G.I.s and German workers labored 24 hours a day to get them unloaded. In the orange and white control tower, 13 G.I.s worked around the clock, surrounded by Coke bottles, cigarette smoke, and the brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA on EC 84 . . . That's flour...
DIED. Romy Schneider, 43, international movie star; of "natural causes," possibly a heart attack; in Paris. Born in Austria to celebrated acting parents, Schneider made 13 West German films in her teens, mostly costume romances. Fed up with such "Shirley Tempelhof" roles, she moved to France and acted parts from comedy to sultry mystery in dozens more flicks shot in Europe (Boccaccio '70) and a few in the U.S. (What's New Pussycat?). Twice divorced, Schneider was depressed by the accidental death last July of her son David Haubenstock, 14, who was impaled on a wrought-iron fence...
...police credentials had cleared him through an inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...