Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urgency. Whether or not most of the world was dismayed by the ugly Wall that divides Berlin, Nikita was clearly delighted with what he saw. Only the day before, in fact, he had sung the Wall's praises in his 2½-hour speech to the big East German Communist Party Congress in East Berlin's Werner Seelenbinder Hall...
...leading up to another postponement of his dire Berlin threats. The "success" of the Wall in sealing the borders of the Soviet zone, declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet...
...Chevy Chase, and the property that caught the eye of the prospects was Bonnie Brae, the estate of Washington Department Store Heir Nathaniel H. Luttrell Jr. After negotiations are completed for the landscaped grounds and 17-room fieldstone and brick house, the new neighbor at 6036 Oregon Avenue, N.W., wall probably be Anatoly F. Dobrynin, 42, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Reported price for the new embassy...
...Wall Street Journal rose to the boil: "Tax cutting is not at all the surest and soundest way to a balanced budget; that way is to reduce spending. Too bad the President didn't end his speech about a third of the way through-when he was way ahead with his attractive tax-cut proposals. Instead, he apparently thought it was necessary to tack on a motley assortment of recommendations adding up to a 'domestic program...
...Wall Street Journal returned to the firing line: "Perhaps the real meaning of the President's budget is that its enormous figures are all but meaningless. The figures might as well be picked out of the air, and in large measure they have been." Even the Washington Post flip-flopped into hostility: "While budgetary deficits are regarded with increasing tolerance, increases in Government expenditures are viewed with unabated abhorrence." In Philadelphia, the Inquirer felt deep concern: "This country is venturing onto very shaky ground." In Detroit, the Free Press said starkly: "This budget is a horror. It opens...