Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...
While the West's eyes were focused on Walter Ulbricht's ugly Berlin wall, a greater, equally ugly wall was being built -almost unnoticed by the world-along the entire East-West German frontier. It consists of two parallel concrete and barbed-wire fences, with land mines seeded in between. When it is finished, it will run from the Baltic coastal resort of Travemunde to the Czech border, turning all of East Germany into a giant concentration camp. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers toured the 834-mile border. His report...
Down the Barrel. Despite all this, escapes to the West continue, and so, south from Travemunde, Ulbricht's work gangs are laboring hard to close the remaining gaps in the new wall. At the West German town of Schlutup, a legal crossing point, the East Germans have put on a friendly face for tourists driving into East Germany from Scandinavia. No barbed wire is visible, and the armed guards are stationed some 400 yds. beyond the border. A few yards across the line from Schlutup in East Germany actually lives a West German family. Two young boys wearing soldier...
Vodka & Cigarettes. Between Schnackenburg and Helmstedt, hundreds of work-corps youths are building the new wall. In some areas, the crews manage to seal off as much as six miles of the border a day. The fence weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across...
...successful is the greater wall? Refugees from East Germany this month have trickled to fewer than ten a day, compared with 50 a day in October. Significantly, most of those who are coming over the line are not civilians but defecting military - their uniforms allow them to get within striking distance of the frontier. To cut down on further escapes by people living near the border, the Communists are engaged in a mass-evacuation scheme; some 200,000 East Germans living near the line are being relocated in the East...