Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall can keep East Germans from moving West, but it cannot prevent them from looking in that direction. Last week Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht felt obliged to order a turnabout during the party's Central Committee meeting in East Berlin...
...popular radio station were under fire for encouraging-or failing to discourage-"American sex propaganda" and "beat music." Worst offender of all was one of East Germany's few youthful talents, Balladier Wolf Biermann, 29. Biermann's slangy, sardonic songs describe life in the shadow of the Wall as something less than idyllic. They were pronounced guilty of "ill-concealed bourgeois anarchistic socialism," and, worse still, skepticism...
...nether world that the spy inhabits. There are no miraculous escapes or Union Jack heroics. Just ordinary men, trained to be distrustful, sizing one another up at a glance, measuring the assessment against every subsequent pause and gesture. Through ever-changing shades of perfidy on both sides of the Wall, the drama inches toward its bitter climax, made more agonizing by Ritt's detachment. He simply records an event and lets the shock wave follow...
Horrified Rumor. Thus, Wall Street was suitably horrified last week as rumors swept the Street that Balderston's replacement might be none other than Galbraith. If the President nominates an easy-money advocate, the Board's one-vote margin for higher interest rates would disappear and Bill Martin might resign. Johnson has reportedly rejected three men for Balderston's chair, has not yet made up his mind. The business community particularly opposes the appointment of another man like Sherman Maisel, an easy-money man and a former University of California economics professor named to the board...
Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only...