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...East fenced with West, in a skirmish which went by certain rules and limits, everyone was increasingly aware that a dangerous imponderable had been added to all the cautious, careful calculations about the "aching tooth" of Berlin, the bone in Khrushchev's throat. This was the presence of an ever-increasing flow of westward-moving refugees racing to use the West Berlin escape hatch. For the West to encourage it, or for the East to shut it off, could bring things to a flash point...
...Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht was nowhere to be seen. After he failed to appear at an East Berlin reception for Ghana's junketing Kwame Nkrumah, reports circulated that Ulbricht had flown to Moscow for fresh orders and to discuss with Khrushchev new therapy for "the bone in my throat" that is Berlin. At week's end an East German spokesman confirmed that Ulbricht was in Moscow...
...democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising the new neutrality.) But Ike warned that interference in Berlin could mean war, and Khrushchev said no more...
...hour trip on an open deck. He returned to the White House later that afternoon, underwent about a 15-minute physical examination from Dr. Travell. All seemed to be going well. But at 1:30 o'clock the next morning. John Kennedy awoke with a sore throat, an aching head, a queasy stomach. The President took his own temperature, then put in a hurried call to Dr. Travell at her Foggy Bottom home...
...want. The more opulent buy cheap South African brandy for $3 to $4 a bottle from white bootleggers who pick it up at $1.68 in the whites-only stores. The rest drink their troubles away at the illicit drinking parlors of "shebeen queens." wealthy black matrons who serve a throat-scalding, home-distilled brew made by boiling together potato peelings, berries and sometimes a dash of methylated spirits...