Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berliners are forever finding new ways to frustrate Communist rules and punch holes in the ugly Red Wall. The latest stunt is a lot more expensive than leaping over barbed wire but a lot safer than dodging Vopo bullets. All it takes is a holiday train ticket to another Iron Curtain country...
...three in Hungary alone last year. East Germans seen consorting with "Western agents" can lose their travel privileges and even face trial. But the reunions continue. Last November Czechoslovakia opened her borders to West Germany, and already plans are being laid by thousands on both sides of the Wall. "I'm jammed with bookings for Easter in Prague," said one travel bureau owner last week. "The rush...
Latest news on the thin-wall apartment front is snoring...
...Sheir's stentorian breathing was under discussion before a judge because snorer Sheir had haled Neighbor Gutwirth into court for repeatedly pounding on the wall to wake him, thereby making "unnecessary noise." Sheir claimed that his snoring, by contrast, is necessary noise. Gutwirth admits it. "What the hell," he says. "Snoring is like breathing, and how in the world are you going to ask somebody to stop giving it the old in-and-out? He can't help his snoring, but at least he can move...
...Gutwirth rented a sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...