Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talk." Bridges' politics remain curious. He says he is a registered Republican, but the only picture on his office wall is one of F.D.R. Yet Bridges is still sympathetic to Communist causes-a tendency that kept him in trouble with the U.S. Government for years. The U.S. repeatedly tried to deport Bridges to his native Australia, once got him convicted of perjury for swearing in his 1945 application for U.S. citizenship that he had never been a member of the Communist Party. But Bridges won that on appeal, and eventually won every other case...
...sweetest Christmas music Berliners have heard in more than two years had nothing to do with Bach or Handel. It was the ugly stutter of jackhammers tearing gates in the Berlin Wall, the whine of cranes removing zigzag barriers from heavily guarded crossing points. Then, late last week, the candy-stripe customs poles went up, and thousands of grinning, gift-laden West Berliners swarmed through the Wall for their first reunions with eastern sector relatives since August 1961. A long row of glowing charcoal braziers warmed the approach to the Oberbaum Bridge, and two brightly lit Christmas trees guarded...
Only till Midnight. Ironically, Communism's grudging Christmas present to West Berlin seems to have originated in the toy factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...
Ulbricht was apparently in no mood to be generous. The hole in the Wall is a tiny one by any measurement. Only those West Berliners who have immediate relatives in the Communist part of the city may pass through the five special entry points designated by the East Germans. Passes, issued by East German postal officials, are good through Jan. 5, but only from 7 a.m. to midnight, except on New Year's Day when the pass holders may stagger back as late as 5 a.m. Though some 800,000 West Berliners qualify for the passes, many of them...
Tears & Brandy. But despite restrictions and Red tape, some half a million West Berliners will probably make the sentimental journey before the holiday season ends-many of them more than once. Tears and brandy flowed as the first visitors crossed the Wall. Grandparents sized up snowsuited two-year-olds they had never seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East...