Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the three made their break just after the 9:30 bed check. They stuffed pillows into their cots, topped them off with crude but passable dummy heads fashioned from plaster, paint, and hair scraps that they had gathered from the prison barber shop. The holes in the wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried...
...Lesson. Prison authorities theorized that the three had died in the water while trying to reach uninhabited Angel Island, 11 miles from The Rock. From a fourth prisoner, who had also dug himself a hole in his wall but had backed out, officials learned that the escapees had planned to use inflated prison raincoats as flotation equipment. The convicts had hoped to make it to Angel Island, and from there in the same fashion to Marin County on the mainland, where they planned to burgle a clothing store. But after experimenting with this equipment, prison authorities found that the rain...
...months after Walter Ulbricht sealed off East Berlin, his harassed border police last week were still adding new gun emplacements and barbed wire to keep their fellow citizens from climbing the Wall to freedom. But East Germans, in increasing numbers, are taking another route: underground...
...their way out. chalking up the biggest weekly total of successful escapes recorded so far this year. Most ambitious of the tunnels went from West to East. Led by Peter Scholz, a 2O-year-old West Berlin mechanic who was separated from his East German fiancee by the Wall, six young Berliners started in the cellar of a West Berlin tavern, dug a shaft 9 ft. below ground that surfaced 60 ft. away in the basement of an East Berlin photograohy shop. There they made rendezvous with eleven friends and relatives, including Scholz's fiancee and her four-month...
...doughty little Englishwoman known as Bryher-in 1920 she changed her name from Winifred Ellerman-lives in Switzerland, where she has written a series of brisk, gnomic historical novels (Roman Wall, Ruari). Bryher seems to have had a full life of missed opportunities. She is the daughter and sister of millionaires...