Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nickel was preceded into East Germany by Marshall Loeb, who edits TIME color projects, and Photographer Jerry Cooke. Their entries also took much wangling, but once inside the country they encountered only minor harassment. Once, while Cooke was photographing the Wall from the western side, a soldier from the other side kept blinking a mirror into his lens. One frustration for the visiting journalist in East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy...
...Parkland Hospital, the President lay in Trauma Room 1-an area "as impersonal as IBM, which had actually manufactured the wall clock." Dr. Malcolm Perry entered the room and looked at Kennedy, who was undressed except for a back brace and shorts; the surgeon's first reaction was, "The President's bigger than I thought...
...country they rule, at least, remains something of a concentration camp. Its capital city not only shuts its people in with an infamous wall, but its western borders bristle with 860 miles of fortifications-with machine guns pointing inward at the East Germans themselves. East Germany is still a police state, in which political prisoners by the thousands languish in jails...
Nothing in Common. Today, East Germany is a land whose soul is being sundered even while its body is at last growing healthier and more robust. Westerners have long believed that, despite the Wall, Germans remained Germans, and that formal division of the country could not last forever. For 22 years, spade-bearded Ulbricht has worked to prove this hope wrong by trying to establish his bailiwick not only as a separate German state but as a nation distinct from West Germany in as many ways as possible. The fact is that he is beginning to have some success. Last...
...strip miners, operating under ancient mineral-rights leases, have mined the land and simply moved on, leaving behind a fearful legacy of tormented earth. In West Virginia alone, strip miners are tearing up land at the rate of 6,000 acres a year, annually creating 240 miles of "high wall"-vertical cliffs of "overburden" (discarded earth and rock) that resist vegetation, frequently slide over onto adjacent homes and property...