Word: tiergarten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago West Berlin sent out invitations to the world's architects, asking them for low-cost plans to rebuild Berlin's bombed-out Hansaviertel, an upper-class district bordering the Tiergarten. By last week West Berlin housing authorities had put their stamp of approval on 56 plans, already had six under construction. The new apartment city promises to become one of the world's most handsome showcases of what's new in modern low-cost architecture. Pick of the new buildings: ¶ From France, Le Corbusier, designer of Marseille's Radiant City (TIME...
Reuter's long-memoried Socialists elected him mayor. His slouching figure, encased in flapping, light raincoat and surmounted by a cheeky black beret, soon became a familiar sight in West Berlin. Poking in the ruins with his thick, brown cane, strolling through the Tiergarten, where he would sometimes help the Haus-frauen gather sticks for their fires, Ernst Reuter became a man whom the people loved. They called him Herr Berlin...
This decided Ashkhenin, a 20-year-old draftee from a village in the Urals. A moment after the officer left, he scampered across the street into the densely shrubbed Tiergarten, and hid out there, hugging the ground, while a Russian party tried to find him. Then he ripped off his epaulettes, tossed away his Tommy gun and ran toward the first lights he could see, the kliegs of No Way Back...