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King George's health has never been rugged. Two years ago he underwent a serious leg operation for a circulatory ailment. His consistent refusal to take things easy has taken its toll. There was danger of surgical shock to a constitution weakened by more than four months of respiratory trouble...
Four weeks ago they stopped trucks leaving West Berlin for Germany's West zone, demanded a toll of $75 a round trip to pay for "road upkeep." They had already cut off the Berlin-Mittelland barge canal for "repairs" and hampered railway parcel-post shipments on still another pretext. Meanwhile, Red negotiators sat down with West German officials to talk about a new trade agreement between East and West Germany...
That night Flagler counted the gala day's toll: 20 dead, 50 injured. Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt. The toll might have been even worse. Just before the crash, a crowd of children ran from the fatal spot to get a better look at Fred Ruble's sail plane...
...five weeks of practice, almost every body had worked out his own signals. But since it was impossible not to tramp, instinctively, on the brakes when the driver ahead began his alarming arm flapping, the accident toll was diminishing. In the face of the sternest handicaps, down-East individualism was still proving...
Again the Russians turned down the screws. Last week they slapped a toll on all West German passenger cars and trucks traveling the 103-mile stretch of Autobahn through Soviet-controlled territory that connects Western Germany with Berlin. The toll ranged from $2.40 to $36, depending on size and type of vehicle. Stated reason for the road levy: East Germany needs money for the upkeep of the Autobahn...