Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, the group was shown through HUAC's 10-room suite which includes a million-name closed file of American Communists and an extensive collection of publications ranging from National Review to the Worker. The suite also has prominent pictures of U.S. Communist Party leaders and a large wall map of the U.S. with red pins showing the sites of Communist Party offices...
...Tempelhof Airport in the midst of a cold, stinging snowstorm. Yet more than 100,000 West Berliners lined the streets, repeatedly holding up the motorcade by the sheer press of their numbers. At Potsdamer Platz, Bobby glared through the strands of barbed wire that are part of the Wall in that section of divided Berlin. On the East Berlin side, a few Vopos scuttled out of sight. Otherwise, East Berlin appeared empty-and dead. "This," said Bobby, echoing the reaction of every first visitor, "is even more shocking than I imagined it would be. Unbelievable." Driving on to City Hall...
Besides all this, the new venture of Dow Jones and Co., publishers of the Wall Street Journal, included long and detailed coverage of most of the major news events of the week. Its mission, apparently, was to make world news palatable to the man in the street and his family, after softening them with the side-shows mentioned above...
...rate may fall from 30% to a mere 15%. And though Japan's foreign trade balance in December was the most favorable in a year, many Japanese darkly suspect that they are being frozen out of international trade. In Europe's Common Market, they see only a wall designed to keep Japanese goods out of Europe. The 19-nation Geneva agreement on textiles published last week will, in fact, open new markets in Europe for Japanese cotton goods, but this does not pacify the Japanese, who have focussed instead on the attempts of the U.S. to reduce...
...vice president and general sales manager last week by a "tremendous offer I just couldn't afford to refuse." A.M.C. earnings fell from $48 million in 1960 to $23.6 million last year as spending on production facilities and merchandising was hiked to meet stiffening competition from Big3 compacts. Wall Street analysts are generally bearish about prospects for continued A.M.C. growth. Rambler, they reason, has lost its "uniqueness," and American taste is trending back from the compact toward larger cars. "A.M.C. will have to restyle and shift gears completely," predicted one Wall Streeter...